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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
Sprint Zero

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

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 09-26-2008
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

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 09-04-2008
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
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...

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 08-26-2008
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...

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 08-19-2008
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

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 08-15-2008
Wizdl

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

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 08-11-2008
Agile and Risk

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

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 07-30-2008
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

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