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Kanban as Alternative Agile Implementation

Kanban systems for software, derived from the Toyota Production System, are an iterationless approach for scheduling work. Instead of using a time boxed iteration and planning meeting, the pulls stories from the backlog only when it has completed its previous work. Read more: http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/10/kanban_agile 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!

Posted 24 October 2008 02:28 AM by riaan | with no comments

Filed under: BizTalk, C#, Development, patterns, Agile, SCRUM, Practices, Kanban

Martin Fowler on Avoiding Common Scrum Pitfalls

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!

Posted 04 September 2008 02:49 AM by riaan | with no comments

Filed under: Development, Agile, SCRUM, Practices

Industrial XP

In this interview taken by Sadek Drobi of InfoQ, Joshua Kerievsky, founder of Industrial Logic, talks about Industrial Extreme Programming which extends XP by including practices dealing with management, customers and developers. http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Industrial-XP-Joshua-Kerievsky 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!

Posted 03 September 2008 02:47 AM by riaan | with no comments

Filed under: Agile, Practices, Scum, XP, Extreme Programming

Scalability Worst Practices

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 Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

Posted 26 August 2008 03:29 AM by riaan | with no comments

Filed under: Development, patterns, Agile, Practices

Scrum-ban

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 how it can augment Scrum. http://leansoftwareengineering.com/ksse/scrum-ban/ Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog...

Posted 19 August 2008 03:03 AM by riaan | with no comments

Filed under: Development, programming, Agile, SCRUM, Practices, Kanban

Kanban as an Agile practice

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!

Posted 15 August 2008 02:30 AM by riaan | with no comments

Filed under: Development, patterns, Agile, Practices, XP

Lean Thinking

Posted 16 July 2008 02:44 AM by riaan | with no comments

Filed under: C#, Development, programming, patterns, Agile, Practices, XP

Agile And the truth

Posted 15 July 2008 01:51 AM by riaan | with no comments

Filed under: C#, Development, programming, Design, patterns, Priciples, Agile, .net, Practices

Software factories - a practicle implemenation

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! | live it!

Posted 18 June 2008 03:06 AM by riaan | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: C#, Development, programming, Design, Architecture, patterns, Agile, .net, Practices, Factories

DDD in practice

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!

Posted 18 June 2008 02:37 AM by riaan | 165 comment(s)

Filed under: C#, Development, programming, Design, Architecture, patterns, Agile, SCRUM, .net, Practices

BizTalk Testing

Posted 28 May 2008 03:38 AM by riaan | with no comments

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

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