ComputerWorld, November 22, 2010, has this: "Open Source Grows Up".
The news of the weird is "It's clear that open-source software has...
1 replies - 3941 views - 12/03/10 by Steven Lott in Articles
One of the biggest problems in software development is the "DONE" problem. We have in our possession a stack of index cards representing user stories...
2 replies - 12429 views - 12/03/10 by Matt Stine in Articles
One of the problems I've noticed in several of the 'agile'
communication mechanisms (such as the standup or dev huddle) that we
typically use on teams is...
0 replies - 4555 views - 11/29/10 by Mark Needham in Articles
The other day I found Screencast-o-matic http://www.screencast-o-matic.com and I think it is easy to create tutorials now via the web, then upload them to...
0 replies - 7210 views - 11/24/10 by Mick Knutson in News
The Unified Modelling Language (version 2, usually) is a set of semi-formal notations that can be used to express aspects of software design in a graphical...
5 replies - 20233 views - 11/18/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Here's a little known fact about your Agile Zone Leader - I'm an Eagle Scout. I spent many happy years in the Boy Scouts, and this meant many happy weekends...
1 replies - 10206 views - 11/17/10 by Matt Stine in Articles
A very interesting discussion came up this past weekend during the "Project Automation" Birds of a Feather (BOF) session at the No Fluff Just Stuff...
1 replies - 5387 views - 11/12/10 by Matt Stine in Articles
Recently Apple announced that it was deprecating its Java Virtual Machine (JVM) implementation. Ten years after promising to "make the Mac the best Java...
11 replies - 6654 views - 11/03/10 by Matt Stine in Articles
A newly proposed Eclipse project called Jubula is being developed under the premise that automated acceptance tests are just as important as project code. ...
0 replies - 6806 views - 10/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
We had a very good turnout for the Automated Browser Testing Poll this week. Before I get into my musings about what happened, here's a quick summary of the...
5 replies - 12670 views - 10/22/10 by Matt Stine in Articles
When I started working on my current project there was no physical story wall, instead the whole project was being tracked on Mingle. The current state of...
3 replies - 4024 views - 10/21/10 by Mark Needham in Articles
I had a break in my personal speaking schedule today at NFJS in Minneapolis, MN, and I decided to attend Tim Berglund's talk on Gaelyk. Gaelyk is an extremely...
1 replies - 9098 views - 10/15/10 by Matt Stine in Articles
Ahh, famous last words of the close-minded programmer. Solutions abound for automating the build process in software projects: Ant, Gant, Maven, Gradle, Rake,...
7 replies - 14237 views - 10/08/10 by Matt Stine in Articles
You manage developers and you'd like to think you're a good manager... but look at the evidence. Most, if not all, of your projects are late. Your team often...
14 replies - 26222 views - 10/06/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
Today I'm kicking off a new emphasis here at Agile Zone on software project automation. The astute reader will recognize the double reference to R.E.M.'s 1992...
2 replies - 10301 views - 10/04/10 by Matt Stine in Articles
