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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 biggest edition of such an event.
2 replies - 3566 views - 12/05/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
At the Agile 2011 we celebrated the 10th
anniversary of the Agile Manifesto. One thing that occurred to me about
how to celebrate this was to re-publish abbreviated versions of my
interviews with several of the 17 authors.
0 replies - 3302 views - 09/10/11 by Jim Highsmith in News
DZone got a rare opportunity this month to interview Jez Humble, the co-author of Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation. The timing was perfect since Jez's company, ThoughtWorks Studios, has just...
0 replies - 4472 views - 05/30/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
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 reached. A reason for this behavior was the fear of overdesigning the system and code for tomorrow...
0 replies - 7407 views - 05/17/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Microsoft XP is officially being retired. To mark the date when Microsoft will officially withdraw support for XP, developers at the software giant have released a "Windows XP End of Support Countdown Gadget." Installing directly to the desktop,...
3 replies - 25642 views - 04/21/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
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 - 6482 views - 08/16/10 by Nitin Bharti in Videos
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 how FDD differs from Scrum
and eXtreme Programming-inspired approaches when it comes to working with
larger...
1 replies - 10218 views - 12/04/09 by Stephen Palmer in Articles
Richard Stobart has written an excellent article over at ITWales.com that provides some very interesting perspectives on the practice of pair programming. Conspiracy theorists, cynics, and even customers might view pair programming as an attempt by the...
3 replies - 5889 views - 09/30/09 by Nitin Bharti 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 2008 and saw an interesting session, “Breaking Brooks’s Law”
from Menlo Innovations, a Michigan...
2 replies - 4802 views - 10/11/08 by Richard Sharpe in News
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 your problems. The least understood of all of these is a framework that deals with the software...
0 replies - 5104 views - 06/04/08 by Aslam Khan in Articles
