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

An introduction on infoq on Lean Thinking in software. http://www.infoq.com/articles/lean-thinking-software Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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

What is the role of the truth in the Agile development process? Here is a post that seem to know: http://dpwhelan.com/blog/agile/truthfulness-on-software-teams/ Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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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

Nice set of articles on unit testing BizTalk processes. http://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson/archive/2008/04/27/121687.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: BizTalk, Integration, Development, Design, patterns, Agile, Practices, Testing

Collective code ownership
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 2:36 PM

Article on Infoq.com around the good and bad of implementing collective code ownership as part of your Agile implementation: http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/05/weaknesses_collective_code;jsessionid=FE9DD28338F050DA716815E4A8B3D9C5 Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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