Agile

Agile 2009: Day Three

After a great first day, day three at Agile 2009 is a wrap. I have some general observations about the conference, but I’ll save those until next week to...

0 replies - 1483 views - 08/27/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles

The Project Date - Kill It!

Tom DeMarco recently published an article in IEEE Software suggesting he may have been wrong in stating that metrics are a requirement for successful software...

3 replies - 3117 views - 07/22/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles

Borland Introduces Silk 2009

Borland today unveiled Silk 2009, a comprehensive software test suite designed to support the testing needs of both Agile and traditional development teams by...

0 replies - 1690 views - 07/20/09 by CodeJustin in Announcements

What Pair-Programing is Not

People often ask how can I justify two people when one will do. Will this not, just double my cost? To answer this question I think it is important to discuss...

9 replies - 2955 views - 06/15/09 by mhevery in Articles

Case study: CI, Branching and Release Strategy For a Medium-Size Project

Someone recently asked me about how I organised releases in our Subversion repository. So I decided to write up the response as a blog entry. This article...

0 replies - 3097 views - 05/22/09 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles

Agile Adoption Refcard for Decreasing Time to Market Available for Download

What is Agile? Do you have the right agile practices for your team? This Refcard focuses on choosing the right agile practices for your team or organization...

3 replies - 10340 views - 03/16/09 by Nitin Bharti in Announcements

Agile Methods - Delivering Software Faster

A core tenet of agile methodologies is to help teams deliver software more quickly. But with the plethora of agile practices available to choose from, teams...

1 replies - 3869 views - 03/16/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News

Big Teams & Agility - Take 2

In Big Teams & Agility, I talked about a macro process for agile development on large teams (those up to, possibly exceeding, 100 developers).

1 replies - 2337 views - 03/12/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News

Looking at Eclipse Plugin Jupiter Again, After a Year with Crucible

Crucible seduces with its Ajax interface. The prospect of just clicking on a button next to a changeset and then drilling open source files and clicking...

5 replies - 3664 views - 03/06/09 by Rob Williams in Articles

Big Teams and Agility

In Grass Roots Agile, I talked about some of the details surrounding how development teams can increase their agility, and I presented a diagram similar to...

6 replies - 3760 views - 03/06/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles

Writing good code requires you to perform experiments

How often do you have to solve a small problem that is a part of a larger project and decide to take the time to perform some seperate experiments to solve the...

12 replies - 5705 views - 03/05/09 by Confusion09 in News

Code Generators: Robots of the Software Factory

There are many analogies between software development and manufacturing. The “Software Factory” methodology utilizes these similarities. Another analogy is...

0 replies - 3344 views - 03/03/09 by Ibrahim in News

NFJS Magazine Launched Today

No Fluff Just Stuff has been the most popular touring conference for years, and now they've launched a new magazine. The initial issue has articles by...

0 replies - 579 views - 02/26/09 by Jared Richardson in Announcements

2009 Predictions, 2008 Predictions Revisited

It's once again that time of year, and in keeping with my tradition, I'll revisit the 2008 predictions to see how close I came before I start waxing prophetic...

7 replies - 9365 views - 01/02/09 by Ted Neward in Articles

Static Methods are Death to Testability

Recently many of you, after reading Guide to Testability, wrote to telling me there is nothing wrong with static methods. After all what can be easier to test...

28 replies - 8782 views - 12/15/08 by mhevery in Articles