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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...

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 10-24-2008
Stop-the-Line Issues

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...

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 08-28-2008
Lean Thinking

An introduction on infoq on Lean Thinking in software. http://www.infoq.com/articles/lean-thinking-software

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 07-16-2008
Agile And the truth

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/

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 07-15-2008
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

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 06-18-2008
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

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 06-18-2008
V1:Agile Team

VersionOne has released V1:Agile Team. This is a product aimed at small development teams to enable them to get Agile fast. As VersionOne states "much beter than a spreadsheet". http://www.versionone.com/VersionOneTeam.asp

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 05-27-2008
How long should a sprint last?

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

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 05-21-2008
Integration Patterns - BizTalk User Group

Last night a did a very brief - sorry guys, the nerves was speaking 9the next one will be beter) - presentation on Integration and Integration Patterns. The presentation can be downloaded or viewed online from here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/2909031/Integration-Patterns

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 05-08-2008
Collective code ownership

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

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 05-06-2008

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