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Worth Repeating - XP Bills of Rights

 While doing the electronic equivalent of cleaning the attic yesterday, I stumbled across an internal paper I wrote at a client back in late September...

0 replies - 1419 views - 03/29/13 by Dave Rooney in Articles

Scrum vs. XP

In a nice tie-in to my previous assertion that the root cause of Flaccid Scrums is a lack of XP-like focus upon technical quality, Allan Kelly has written two...

0 replies - 1508 views - 03/11/13 by Steve Smith in Articles

A Flaccid Scrum is a Missed Opportunity

Without the disciplined technical practices provided by XP, Scrum projects will always flounder.  A classic post from 2010. Martin Fowler wrote a...

0 replies - 2494 views - 03/01/13 by Steve Smith in Articles

Design Doesn't Emerge from Code

I know a lot of people who are transitioning to Agile or already following Agile development methods. Almost all of them are using something based on Scrum at...

0 replies - 4051 views - 01/24/13 by Jim Bird in Articles

Test-Driven Emergent Design vs. Analysis

Test-Driven Development has been my main workflow for software development in the last years. Its refinement, which I learn from GOOS is a double cycle applied...

0 replies - 9681 views - 03/15/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

What I learned in the Global Day of Code Retreat

This Saturday, 2200 software developers gathered in more than 90 cities around the world to improve their skills. This Global Day of Code Retreat was the...

2 replies - 6003 views - 12/05/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Interview with Kent Beck (circa 2001)

At the Agile 2011 we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Agile Manifesto. One...

0 replies - 4532 views - 09/10/11 by Jim Highsmith in News

Jez Humble: On DevOps, Cloud Impact, and Go Being Years Ahead of Other Tools

DZone got a rare opportunity this month to interview Jez Humble, the co-author of Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and...

0 replies - 6230 views - 05/30/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

The 4 rules of simple design

A colleague of mine told me a bit ago that Red-green instead of Red-green-refactor was becoming an issue: many commits where made just when the green bar was...

0 replies - 11749 views - 05/17/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Daily Dose: Countdown to the End of XP Support

Microsoft XP is officially being retired.  To mark the date when Microsoft will officially withdraw support for XP, developers at the software giant have...

3 replies - 29232 views - 04/21/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

eXtreme Programming in Practice

Extreme programming sounds a little too "ESPN2" for most managers, but there is a lot of sound engineering behind its principles. In this...

0 replies - 7971 views - 08/16/10 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

An Introduction to Feature-Driven Development – Part 2

This is the second part of a two-part article introducing Jeff De Luca’s Feature Driven Development (FDD) process. In particular, we are looking at...

1 replies - 14042 views - 12/04/09 by Stephen Palmer in Articles

Pair Programming - Dispelling the Conspiracy

Richard Stobart has written an excellent article over at ITWales.com that provides some very interesting perspectives on the practice of pair programming. ...

3 replies - 6833 views - 09/30/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

Video: Breaking Brooks's Law

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 - 5534 views - 10/11/08 by Richard Sharpe in News

Introducing the A-* Stack

There are so many frameworks, architectural styles, tool stacks from which to choose. Perhaps, there are too many. Yet none of them are able to solve all...

0 replies - 5967 views - 06/04/08 by Aslam Khan in Articles