Architecture is an overloaded term these days, and one that is not
always easy to define. There's also a myth surrounding architecture and
agile methods -...
2 replies - 11284 views - 05/13/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News
Jurgen Appelo has published the results of his agile practices survey. The information he collected was sizeable, valuable, and interesting. There were a few...
1 replies - 6898 views - 05/12/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News
In this presentation, Jurgen Appelo talks about agility and the 12 laws of software development. Among other topics, he talks about motivation,...
1 replies - 5928 views - 04/21/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Videos
About 10 years ago I recall studying profusely so that I might pass
my Java programmer's certification exam. I purchased a copy of an exam
cram book that had...
14 replies - 6176 views - 03/20/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News
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 - 9083 views - 03/16/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News
In Big Teams & Agility, I talked about a macro process for agile development on large teams (those up to, possibly exceeding, 100 developers). The article...
1 replies - 6360 views - 03/12/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News
1 replies - 11794 views - 03/02/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews
A recent post on InfoQ discusses a two part article
by Israel Gat that argues in favor of internal vs external releases by
decoupling the engineering aspects...
0 replies - 4459 views - 02/18/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News
During these testing times, you cannot afford to be inefficient. Correcting problems early in the development process is critical when producing quality...
0 replies - 3030 views - 02/06/09 by Anthony Scotney in Announcements
This is an exercise in how to apply the principles found in Robert C Martins new book Clean Code. We performed it a code review last week on functions I had...
31 replies - 10151 views - 02/03/09 by Tomas Malmsten in Articles
Zutubi is excited to announce the release of Pulse 2.0! This release combines two huge new features: templated configuration and plugins, which we have...
0 replies - 2293 views - 12/17/08 by Jason Sankey in Announcements
Let me begin with a story about my friend, a tech lead at a small business company. He was assigned the task of enriching his company's "Expense...
4 replies - 7251 views - 10/15/08 by Robbie Cheng in Articles
Fred
Brooks’s law of adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
is one most of us have tried to prove wrong... and failed!
I was at Agile...
2 replies - 5535 views - 10/11/08 by Richard Sharpe in News
0 replies - 5016 views - 10/03/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews
ThoughtWorks released a "beta" of Twist, a new commercial functional
testing platform for software teams. Twist features a design
environment using...
2 replies - 7792 views - 09/30/08 by Frank Cohen in Announcements
