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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
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
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
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
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
SCRUM and how to handle interuptions

Here is Geoff Watts take on how interuptions during a SCRUM sprint should be dealt with: http://www.scrumalliance.org/articles/91-production-support-and-scrum

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 07-10-2008
What is Done?

Just listened to the Hanselminutes podcast with Ken Schwaber about the definition of “Done” in software development terms. This is something that most teams fail in I believe. Developers think Done is when they have written the code, and maybe their unit tests have passed. Testers think...

Posted to Peter's Software House (Weblog) by Pieter on 06-29-2008
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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