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Agile Estimation using Risk Management Techniques

James Shore has published an excellent 2 part series of articles covering agile planning through using risk management practices to make solid commitments. The articles show how to use Risk Multipliers to account for common risks such as turnover, changing requirements, work disruption and...

Posted to From the software development trenches (Weblog) by cjlotz on 10-10-2008
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
Can SOA be done with an agile approach?

In this article Martin Fowler looks at SOA and implementing Agile around the concept. http://martinfowler.com/bliki/EvolutionarySOA.html Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 09-22-2008
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
SDLC Progress

I've been spending the last month or two getting the SDLC procedures and infrastructure in place for the Silverlight release of our company's Enterprise Physical Asset Management system. We were already using Team Foundation Source Control but wanted to adopt SCRUM as our development methodology...

Posted to From the software development trenches (Weblog) by cjlotz on 09-01-2008
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
Code Reviews using TFS Tools

I've previously blogged about using code reviews as an effective way to minimize defects, improve code quality and keep code more maintainable. In my new job I had to define a code review process that suited our development team as well as the Team Foundation Server toolset and the Conchango...

Posted to From the software development trenches (Weblog) by cjlotz on 08-25-2008
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

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