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 - 6852 views - 01/11/12 by Abby Fichtner in Articles
This article describes some practices for test-driving multithreaded and distributed applications written in Java. The example I worked on and we will use is a peer-to-peer application composed of many Nodes (clients) and of a few Supernodes (servers).The...
4 replies - 4244 views - 01/03/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
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
GOTO Copenhagen is an international software development conference with 2 days of training and 3 conference days providing more than 20 tracks and 70+ presentation sessions by leading experts and authors.
For the second time we are launching the GOTO...
0 replies - 294 views - 12/05/11 by Amalie Schmidt in Announcements
This is the third of several posts
in which I’d like to share some of the things we learned throughout more than 14
sprints of Agile development using Scrum. Some of them might appear as open
doors, but I wish I knew or thought about those before I...
0 replies - 2621 views - 11/10/11 by Dennis Doomen in News
This is a Retread by Martin Fowler of an earlier version of this post which was first published in 2005. Definitely worth a read.In my writing endeavors, I've long intended to write a chunk of
material on validation. It's an area that leads to a lot...
3 replies - 3369 views - 11/04/11 by Martin Fowler in Articles
From the very beginning of when I started to talk and write about
refactoring people have asked me how it should be incorporated into
the wider software development process. Should there be refactoring phases in
the software development lifecycle, what...
0 replies - 6719 views - 11/01/11 by Martin Fowler in Articles
Selenium 2 features new Api and implementations which goes under the name of WebDriver. It's a simpler, faster, object-oriented Api that applies to modern web application testing problems. No more sending hexedecimal numbers into an element for writing text!
0 replies - 4893 views - 10/25/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
DDD Day is an Italian event totally dedicated to Domain-Driven Design, an approach for software development in complex domains such as banking, insurance, transportation systems and so on. DDD Day is organized and attended mostly by a .NET audience, which...
2 replies - 4018 views - 10/11/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Michael Feathers presented his recurring idea of finding out which elements of design change together: his goal is to discover which classes or methods are really coupled by analyzing empirical data instead of static analysis. Since he didn't publish code,...
0 replies - 3478 views - 10/06/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
The Goal by Eli Goldratt is a business book in the form of a novel, where the protagonist must save his factory from closing due to very low productivity.
5 replies - 4531 views - 10/04/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Joshua Kerievsky posted this most excellent table illustrating some of the differences between Agile and Lean Startup.
I think this is so awesome because it shows how much more real everything is in Lean Startup.
4 replies - 3611 views - 08/30/11 by Abby Fichtner in News
One year ago, at the Agile 2010 conference, I came up with the idea to publish a Top 100 Agile Books. Like many of my other top 100 lists it was a great success (in terms of blog traffic).
This year I am not at the Agile 2011 conference (for various reasons,...
1 replies - 5523 views - 08/12/11 by Jurgen Appelo in News
Zutubi is excited to announce Pulse 2.4.5, the first stable build in the 2.4 series. Pulse 2.4 includes an array of new features including new tool support and a continued focus on UI and usability in general:
0 replies - 340 views - 08/10/11 by Jason Sankey in Announcements
I think almost everyone I know in the software development field
has a deep hatred for patents and the way they've been used in our
field.
4 replies - 5296 views - 08/06/11 by Martin Fowler in News
