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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
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
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
BizTalk Testing

Nice set of articles on unit testing BizTalk processes. http://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson/archive/2008/04/27/121687.aspx

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 05-28-2008
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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