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Sprint Zero
Friday, September 26, 2008 2:24 AM

Some teams use a Sprint 0 to prepare their product backlog, the infrastructure (development environment, CI server), ... .Is this part of Scrum? Is it useful? http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/09/sprint_zero Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Martin Fowler on Avoiding Common Scrum Pitfalls
Thursday, September 04, 2008 2:49 AM

InfoQ interview with Martin Fowler: http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/09/fowler-scrum-interview;jsessionid=947B25BAC575C404042BA6215B59DDAB Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Stop-the-Line Issues
Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:00 AM

This is a very brief and good read forming a part of the concept of technical debt. The author explains why it is important to fix bugs as discovered and not leave them piling up in a bug tracking system. I tend to agree with this approach. http://community.ative.dk/blogs/ative/archive/2007/01/29/The-Waste-of-Defects-_2D00_-Bugs-are-Stop_2D00_the_2D00_Line-Issues... Read More...

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Scalability Worst Practices
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:29 AM

In this article, former Orbitz lead architect Brian Zimmer discusses scalability worst pratices. Topics covered include The Golden Hammer, Resource Abuse, Big Ball of Mud, Dependency Management, Timeouts, Hero Pattern, Not Automating, and Monitoring. http://www.infoq.com/articles/scalability-worst-practices Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook... Read More...

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Scrum-ban
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:03 AM

Corey Ladas has written an interesting paper titled Scrum-ban in which he describes how a Scrum team might introduce the lean practice of kanban. He goes on to describe an evolutionary process, which if taken far enough, replaces most of Scrum. Even for those who don't want to scrap Scrum and go lean, the paper provides a useful view into what kanban is and... Read More...

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Kanban as an Agile practice
Friday, August 15, 2008 2:30 AM

This is probably one of the better articles around the concept. I personally love the idea and think this is the way forward for Agile practices. http://www.infoq.com/articles/hiranabe-lean-agile-kanban Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Wizdl
Monday, August 11, 2008 2:31 AM

wizdl is a .NET utility written in C# that allows you to quickly import and test web services within the comfort of a Windows Forms GUI. http://www.codeplex.com/wizdl Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Agile and Risk
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 2:46 AM

Article on how agile practices manage and possibly eliminate risk in the development cycle. http://www.stickyminds.com/sitewide.asp?Function=edetail&ObjectType=COL&ObjectId=11133&tth=DYN&tt=siteemail&iDyn=2 Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! |... Read More...

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Lean Thinking
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:44 AM

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Agile And the truth
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 1:51 AM

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SCRUM and how to handle interuptions
Thursday, July 10, 2008 2:33 AM

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Subversion 1.5
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:42 AM

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Software factories - a practicle implemenation
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:06 AM

Here is an article from MSDN on a practical implementation of software factories. In the article brief principles get discussed, but the over Wow of the article reside in the cutting of development costs. Something to consider: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/cc496679.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it!... Read More...

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DDD in practice
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 2:37 AM

Found this very good article on infoq by Srini Penchikala on Domain Driven Design and the practice implementation of the concept. Even a sample has been included. Read more here: http://www.infoq.com/articles/ddd-in-practice Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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BizTalk Testing
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 3:38 AM

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