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Testing and the development cycle

We all know how important testing is in the development life cycle. Here is an article written by Jeffrey Palermo on the effect of testing - or lack there of: http://jeffreypalermo.com/blog/if-you-cannot-afford-to-test-it-you-cannot-afford-to-sell-it/ Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook...

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 11-19-2008
Martin Fowler on Oslo

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/Oslo.html Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 10-29-2008
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
Oslo

Until recently Oslo has been one of the best kept secrets by Microsoft. There have been many rumors about Oslo being Microsoft’s future SOA strategy, distributed application server or Microsoft’s next unified SOA product portfolio. Finally, Douglas Purdy, Product Unit Manager for Oslo, announces, that...

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 09-12-2008
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
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
Introduction to Cloud Computing

Good introduction article by David Chappel on Cloud Platforms. The article was sponsored by Microsoft. http://www.davidchappell.com/CloudPlatforms--Chappell.pdf Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 08-22-2008
Pluralsight's WCF/WF Developer Screencast Series

Pluralsight has joined forces with the WCF/WF teams at Microsoft to deliver a series of short videos that illustrate how to get started using WCF/WF in your applications. The videos will be hosted on Channel9 within the Screencasts section, and they'll be highlighted on The .NET Endpoint Team Blog...

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 08-20-2008
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

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