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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
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
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...

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 09-03-2008
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
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

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