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That's Not Agile!

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 comes up all the time.

0 replies - 1129 views - 02/11/12 by Nirav Assar in Articles

Cool Visualization of Etsy's Chef Repo 2010-2011

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 - 2755 views - 01/26/12 by Christopher Smith in Videos

Top DZone Article of 2011: I Hate Pair Programming (and your code and you)

“Are you pair programming?” our manager asked in his snarky tone, while using exaggerated double air quotes to emphasize his skepticism. He then walked away without waiting for a response… This is merely one example of numerous instances I’ve...

3 replies - 17063 views - 01/26/12 by David Bland in News

Agile Before There Was Agile: Egoless Programming and Step-by-Step

Two key ideas underlying modern Agile development practices. First, that work can be done more effectively by Whole Teams in which people work together collaboratively to design and build systems. They share code, the review each other’s work, they share...

0 replies - 2826 views - 01/24/12 by Jim Bird in Articles

The Language of Risk

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 team uses to an auditor. Why did the auditor like what I said? Because I explained everything we did...

0 replies - 1839 views - 01/13/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

Kanban is the New Scrum

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 can’t help but feel Kanban represents the next level of agility, giving us more flexibility and...

0 replies - 6857 views - 01/11/12 by Abby Fichtner in Articles

DZone Top Article of 2011: 8 Ways to Share Your Git Repository

This blogpost provides a summary of different ways to share a git repository. Depending on your needs you can opt for different solutions.

6 replies - 12289 views - 01/11/12 by Patrick Debois in News

Agile Vs. Lean: Yeah Yeah, What’s the Difference?

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?  Been getting a lot of questions lately, so thought I’d take a stab at this… Lean Lean comes from...

0 replies - 5448 views - 01/03/12 by Abby Fichtner in Articles

Gorillarinas, Putting the agile skirt on a waterfall Gorilla

Fact: putting a skirt on a Gorilla doesn't make it any more graceful Are your agile initiatives Gorillarinas?

0 replies - 1730 views - 12/29/11 by Michael Mainguy in Articles

Is the Cost of Continuous Integration Worth the Value on Your Program?, Part 1

I like continuous integration. A lot. I started being an aficionado of continuous integration back in my senior year of university . It was my very first (and last) team project in my college career. There were three of us. The project manager waited until...

1 replies - 4290 views - 12/23/11 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

Iterationless Development – the latest New New Thing

Thanks to the Lean Startup movement, Iterationless Development and Continuous Deployment have become the New New Thing in software development methods. Apparently this has gone so far that “there are venture firms in Silicon Valley that won’t even fund...

4 replies - 4156 views - 11/30/11 by Jim Bird in Articles

Being Agile in Release Management

2 great things happened in 2005: Wales won the Grand Slam, and I had my first taste of “agile”. And after having worked on a 3-year-long waterfall project (which still wasn’t finished by the time I left) agile came as a breath of fresh air for me. I...

0 replies - 4013 views - 11/17/11 by James Betteley in Articles

Jez Humble on the Lean Startup Model in the Enterprise

It was a standing-only room when Jez Humble gave his presentation at Agile 2011 on how you could implement the basic principles of Lean Startups in a large...

0 replies - 3325 views - 11/01/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos

You can’t be Agile in Maintenance?

I’ve been going over a couple of posts by Steve Kilner that question whether Agile methods can be used effectively in software maintenance. It’s a surprising question really.

1 replies - 4136 views - 10/14/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

Lean Startup Gaining Traction

David J. Bland, author of the Scrumology blog and a freelance counterterrorism software developer, talks to DZone at the Agile 2011 conference about one...

0 replies - 3755 views - 10/12/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos