At Urbancode, our AnthillPro and uDeploy products are often used
primarily by Release and Deployment teams. As we work with our
customers, who have or are...
0 replies - 5901 views - 03/27/12 by Eric Minick in Articles
The most common legacy code definition is that of a project not covered by automated tests: picture in your mind a big ball of mud, difficult to change or...
1 replies - 8913 views - 03/27/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Every developer that has heard about the Lean movement knows that there are seven lean principles to use as a foundation for this approach in every industry -...
0 replies - 8529 views - 03/19/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Planning Poker (AKA the Grenning game) is a relatively popular agile tool for making estimates on a project. Each team member is handed the same set of...
0 replies - 7450 views - 03/09/12 by Tony Siciliani in Articles
Customers don’t know what they want. Stop expecting customers to know what they want.
–Joel Spolsky
A couple of months ago I attended a presentation
...
1 replies - 4715 views - 02/27/12 by Matt Cottingham in Articles
The 7 habits of highly effective people is an influential and best-selling book which coined terms such as proactivitiy. I'm a developer by day, so I wondered...
0 replies - 44742 views - 02/21/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
No matter the name, the intention of the role is to help teams learn
new skills, continuously improve, and make the transition to a new way
of...
1 replies - 3588 views - 02/20/12 by Esther Derby in Articles
If you work with a bunch of agile minded developer's, you often hear the
phrase "That's not Agile!" It's quite humorous to hear, because it...
1 replies - 5948 views - 02/11/12 by Nirav Assar in Articles
Etsy used Gource, a software version control visualization tool to map Chef Repo. Software projects are displayed by Gource as an animated tree with the
root...
0 replies - 4685 views - 01/26/12 by Chris Smith in Videos
“Are you pair programming?”
our manager asked in his snarky tone, while using exaggerated double
air quotes to emphasize his skepticism. He then walked...
7 replies - 21361 views - 01/26/12 by David Bland in News
Two key ideas underlying modern Agile development practices. First, that work can be done more effectively by Whole Teams
in which people work together...
0 replies - 4466 views - 01/24/12 by Jim Bird in Articles
A few weeks ago Chris Matts wrote an interesting blog post ‘the language of risk‘ in which he describes an approach he used to explain the processes his...
0 replies - 3059 views - 01/13/12 by Mark Needham in Articles
Maybe it’s all the time I spend with startups, but while I strongly
value Scrum’s ideas behind self-organizing teams & continual
feedback – I...
2 replies - 10912 views - 01/11/12 by Abby Fichtner in Articles
This blogpost provides a summary of different ways to share a git
repository. Depending on your needs you can opt for different solutions.
...
7 replies - 16749 views - 01/11/12 by Patrick Debois in News
Is Agile the same as Lean? When people say “agile” do they really
mean Scrum? Or do people still use different types of agile – and if so,
why? ...
1 replies - 9391 views - 01/03/12 by Abby Fichtner in Articles
