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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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Filed under: C#, Development, programming, Agile, SCRUM, XP, Kanban, Technical Debt

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

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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Filed under: Development, programming, Agile, .net, Testing, Unit Testing

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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Filed under: Development, programming, Design, Agile, SCRUM, .net, XP

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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Filed under: Development, programming, Design, Agile, SCRUM

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

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Filed under: Development, programming, Open Source, source control, Agile

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

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

How long should a sprint last?
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:50 AM

InfoQ has got allot of useful information. Here is a short article on what should influence the length of a SCRUM sprint. http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/05/sprint_length Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: C#, Integration, Development, programming, Design, WCF, Agile, information worker, Web 2.0, Scum

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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Filed under: C#, Development, programming, Design, patterns, Agile, SCRUM, dotnet, principles

Scaling SCRUM
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:15 AM

Nice article on infoq.com on how SCRUM will scale to fit the team's needs when each team member has a clear understanding of the principles of the SCRUM process: http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/04/scaling-scrum Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: BizTalk, MOSS, C#, Development, programming, Agile, methodologies, SCRUM

Agile Version Control for Multi-Team Development
Thursday, April 17, 2008 3:33 AM

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