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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
Wizdl

wizdl is a .NET utility written in C# that allows you to quickly import and test web services within the comfort of a Windows Forms GUI. http://www.codeplex.com/wizdl Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 08-11-2008
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
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
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
Subversion 1.5

Subversion 1.5 has just been released: http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.5_releasenotes.html

Posted to Riaan's Blog (Weblog) by riaan on 06-25-2008
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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