XP planning vs Scrum planning Gabriel Lozano-Morán, January 1, 0001 I am new to Extreme Programming (XP) so lately I have been doing quite some reading on XP. I am very familiar to the Scrum framework and I want to outline the resemblance between planning in XP and planning ... XP planning vs Scrum planning 0 0 0
Topics I love to research Murray Gordon, January 1, 0001 Here’s the quick list of things I love to research and work on… Mainframe Integration to .NET IBM 3270 and IBM 5250 mainframe Attachmate Verastream Host Integration (programmatic integration ... Topics I love to research 0 0 2
7 Steps of Agile System Analysis Process Scott Kuhl, January 1, 0001 While software system analysis is a complex and hard activity, people use it many years, so there should be some patterns and guides. There are a lot of books, some of them very good, most of them almost ... 7 Steps of Agile System Analysis Process 0 0 4
Object serialization in VS 2003 Malcolm Anderson, January 1, 0001 I don't know about you, but I have an attention span that is about 20 minutes long. If I can get your sample working, doing something (anything) in the first 20 minutes, I may be playing with it when the ... Object serialization in VS 2003 0 0 0
Here we grow again.. Work with rock stars and cutting edge techno... Colin Bowern, January 1, 0001 Join the team that is building the next generation of Internet-based communities for music legends and new recording artists. If you are passionate about software and love regularly dealing with challenges ... Here we grow again.. Work with rock stars and cutting edge techno... 0 0 1
Saturday feelin' like a Monday D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 So before I dive into my extended work week, I thought I'd blog a bit about the week that was here at Geeks with Blogs. Let's take a peek shall we? I just want a HAMMER!Uri Goldstein has a great post about ... Saturday feelin' like a Monday 0 0 0
Presentation Layer Testing Thoughts Aaron Feng, January 1, 0001 For anyone doing Test Driven Development, mocks (stubs) are commonly used. Whether you hand roll your own mocks, or use a mock framework like Rhino Mocks, stubs are used to in order to isolate the code ... Presentation Layer Testing Thoughts 0 0 1
Who’s the Mole – The Leader Game Aaron Feng, January 1, 0001 Like many teams, we always fine tune our process, so we can consistently be better. Steve Eichert has a great post that describes our process in detail. In addition to what Steve described, we also play ... Who’s the Mole – The Leader Game 0 0 0
Books Books Books Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 I just finished reading Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System by Sam Guckenheimer. A really excellent book. He talks about software engineering principles at a high enough level ... Books Books Books 0 0 0
Tech Ed Summary Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 So I just got way too busy at Tech-Ed to blog every day. The whole thing was a great experience. It turned out that Joel was right about the sessions, I didn't really find them all that valuable, and ended ... Tech Ed Summary 0 0 2
A little late to the party... Scott Wojan, January 1, 0001 An explanation of why this blog exists. A little late to the party... 0 0 0
Running Out of Steam after 12 Iterations? Aaron Feng, January 1, 0001 In my old blog I mentioned that we went from three week iterations down to one week. We were not sure if one week iterations will would for us, but week after week we have seen the fruits. So far, we have ... Running Out of Steam after 12 Iterations? 0 0 1
Are too many years of science fiction skewing rational thought am... Lorin Thwaits, January 1, 0001 What is out of this world coming to? Stephen Hawking has brought us a remarkably better understanding of deep space over the years. But I feel that his recurring opinion about the necessity to populate ... Are too many years of science fiction skewing rational thought am... 0 0 10
A Collection of Agile Resources Scott Kuhl, January 1, 0001 You'll notice that I tend to favor Scrum. Agile Alliance - The Agile Alliance is a non-profit organization that supports individuals and organizations who use agile approaches to develop software. Driven ... A Collection of Agile Resources 0 0 0
Tech-Ed Monday Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 In the morning I went to “Incorporating Agile Development into Your Organization”, given by Peter Provost (http://www.peterprovost.org/) and Adam Riddlehoover (http://blogs.msdn.com/arid... ... Tech-Ed Monday 0 0 2
Goodbye Daily Standup Meetings Aaron Feng, January 1, 0001 Standup meetings are a light weight communication tool that many teams utilize to communicate and spread knowledge to everyone that is involved in the project. Those involved includes not only developers, ... Goodbye Daily Standup Meetings 0 0 0
First day of Tech-Ed Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 Headed over to the Boston Convention Center today for the pre-conference session, and the keynote. I was booked for the pre-conference talk on Software Architecture. The thing ran from 10am - 6pm, with ... First day of Tech-Ed 0 0 1
0110100001100101011011000110110001101111 Aaron Feng, January 1, 0001 I just moved my blog from blogger to here; hopefully I will receive better service at my new home. I will resurface some of my posts here to get some feedback from the community. I usually blog about Agile ... 0110100001100101011011000110110001101111 0 0 2
MSF versus RUP - What is the difference? Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 Very recently my current client has been pushing for Agile for MSF adoption throughout the development organization. Previously things were at or below chaos here in some areas. This of course has been ... MSF versus RUP - What is the difference? 0 0 0
InfoQ.com Enterprise Software Development Community Launched David Totzke, January 1, 0001 June 8th, 2006. InfoQ.com Enterprise Software Development Community has launched today, having previously been live in testing mode since May 17th. InfoQ is a new Enterprise Software Development news / ... InfoQ.com Enterprise Software Development Community Launched 0 0 0
First Post Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 This is my first blog post ever. D'Arcy convinced me that I should start a blog to talk about all the good times at Tech-Ed. So here we go. I'm headed down to Boston for Tech-Ed 2006 in a couple days. ... First Post 0 0 0
Self organizing teams Abrachan Pudussery PMP , January 1, 0001 Self Organizing teams Today it was hectic but interesting. The whole day, I was with some brilliant young engineers. At one place we were conducting a work shop on agile project management. I started ... Self organizing teams 0 0 0
Agile Resources Scott Kuhl, January 1, 0001 What is Agile development? It may be a philosophy or effective methodology or mix of methodologies or adaptive best practices or ... insert your favorite description here. Is it all these things? The answer ... Agile Resources 0 0 0
NJ Code Camp II... Success! Chip Lemmon, January 1, 0001 Well as I've come to expect after a Code Camp I am recharged and psyched about programming again. Like NJ Code Camp I, I met a lot of great people and made some new friends. I have to say that I'm a bit ... NJ Code Camp II... Success! 0 0 0
Around the world in 65 days (Part 5) Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 16:30 EST – Day 22, On the plane again after 27h shore leave home. My bags didn’t make it from New York to Montreal but I got them at 9pm yesterday just in time to do some washing and repacking. ... Around the world in 65 days (Part 5) 0 0 3
How PMBOK help in product development projects? Abrachan Pudussery PMP , January 1, 0001 How PMBOK© help in Product Development Projects? Project Management Professional certification addresses the general project management concepts, which can be applied for any kind project, irrespective ... How PMBOK help in product development projects? 0 0 1
The design power Abrachan Pudussery PMP , January 1, 0001 breakpoint # 21 Design power Today while reading the greatness guide by Robin Sharma, in one chapter he was talking about the German excellence in good design and about apple's products. Have you ever ... The design power 0 0 1
New Job - New Work - New Series Malcolm Anderson, January 1, 0001 I just started my dream job. I'm working for a company that does agile coaching and training. What that means for me right now is that we are in the process of designing course work for the XP portion ... New Job - New Work - New Series 0 0 0
The Da Vinci Code - The Movie Felipe Martino Gagno Ceotto, January 1, 0001 I went to watch The Da Vinci Code, along with millions of others, waiting for something extraordinary. I've read the book, of course, and I've read it 3 times, the last time just now, before I went to ... The Da Vinci Code - The Movie 0 0 0
Long time, no blog, or the Joys of Outsourcing Scott Miller, January 1, 0001 I haven't blogged since March. Busy with school. Busy with work. Busy having a mini midlife crisis. For the last six months I have worked as a Senior Developer for a large company in Wichita. Although ... Long time, no blog, or the Joys of Outsourcing 0 0 0
Evaluating Agile / Scrum Project Applications Steve Bargelt, January 1, 0001 Yes I’ve been evaluating agile project tracking apps / solutions. Kind of painful to tell the truth. One major problem I have is that my team is not truly XP or Scrum – we are pretty agile but we do (for ... Evaluating Agile / Scrum Project Applications 0 0 4
Learning SQL 2005 BI and Agile the same day Szymon Kobalczyk, January 1, 0001 Today for me was a day of learning. It started morning, when I attended a free seminar from Microsoft on SQL Server 2005 Intelligence. We went through Analysis Service, Integration Services, Data Mining ... Learning SQL 2005 BI and Agile the same day 0 0 3
How do we defeat our ego's? Dave Oliver, January 1, 0001 As we all know the development cycle at many a code shop is floored and there has been a number of methodologies and initiatives to help us get over some of the core problems. The simple fact is that I ... How do we defeat our ego's? 0 0 0
We Are Back!!! Podcast Studio 16 - Code Camp Panel Podcast Studio, January 1, 0001 Last night, John and I recorded our first podcast after a 6 month break to form our consulting firm. Thom Robbins, Chris Williams, Don XML, Robin Edwards, and Brian Button joined us to discuss what is ... We Are Back!!! Podcast Studio 16 - Code Camp Panel 0 0 2
Practices of Continuous Integration Chris J. Breisch, January 1, 0001 Martin Fowler has updated his overview article on Continuous Integration. If you’re not doing something along these lines, you’re introducing unnecessary risk to your project. Martin Fowler ... Practices of Continuous Integration 0 0 0
The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming Chris J. Breisch, January 1, 0001 Builder.COM has a great article on “Egoless programming”. I think that if you’re doing Agile development or doing any kind of structured peer review you’re either already doing ... The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming 0 0 0
Agile's Biggest Strength is Agile's Biggest Weakness Chris J. Breisch, January 1, 0001 This post gets to the heart of my issues with Agile. Agile’s biggest weakness is that they minimize forecasting. Most companies today, when they commit to a million dollar project, want to know what ... Agile's Biggest Strength is Agile's Biggest Weakness 0 0 1
Podcast Studio Show 16 Update Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 After the bad news about Scoble's mother, we postponed his podcast for a later time. However, we will have a show this week that will be recorded tomorrow night covering code camps!!!! We have a panel ... Podcast Studio Show 16 Update 0 0 0
Scrum for Team System Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 Scrum for Team System is a free Agile Software Development Methodology add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, developed by Conchango, in collaboration with Ken Schwaber and the Microsoft Technology ... Scrum for Team System 0 0 0
CruiseControl.NET - OpenSource Agile Integration Development Eric Ramseur, January 1, 0001 I am so stoked I looked at Phil Haack's Blog today. I noticed an article about SubText using Cruise Control for their open source development process. I had never heard of CruiseControl and didnt realize ... CruiseControl.NET - OpenSource Agile Integration Development 0 0 0
Source code for the Visual DNN Admin is now available on SourceFo... Guy Peled, January 1, 0001 Visual DNN Admin has it's first release. Built upon a generic framework for building admins, this project can be fully customized through a configuration file. The released code includes code for the generic ... Source code for the Visual DNN Admin is now available on SourceFo... 0 0 0
News fro mthe public sector Solidsoft e-bulletin BizTalk + WWF Visionary, January 1, 0001 Telegram Sam: A little late by me but Solidsoft issued another edition of their quaterly public sector bulletin: Value from IT in Government at the start of the month. These are the features in this latest ... News fro mthe public sector Solidsoft e-bulletin 0 0 0
Agile Development Checklist Liam McLennan, January 1, 0001 The following article lists the practices that I believe are essential to a good agile development project. I have also made a tentative effort rank them by order of importance. Agile Development Checklist ... Agile Development Checklist 0 0 1
Agile and the Jelling of Teams - Reminiscient of Peopleware Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 Only Passionate People Win : Make sure your team is jelled before starting Agile. This post is reminiscent of what the book Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams emphasizes, and this goes back 7+ ... Agile and the Jelling of Teams - Reminiscient of Peopleware 0 0 0
What do you do for Training? Michael Van Cleave, January 1, 0001 I am a part of a consulting company that says that it is very good on training their consultants. Well, more or less they would like you to attend at least 2 training events a year. The problem that I ... What do you do for Training? 0 0 2
Software Development Bookshelf Scott Kuhl, January 1, 0001 For a while I have been adding books to the library feed of this site one at a time. Here is a list of books that I currently keep on my “must have” bookshelf. I will update this periodically ... Software Development Bookshelf 0 0 0
Steve McConnell on Software Estimation Chris J. Breisch, January 1, 0001 Steve McConnell has a new book on Software Estimation. Often referred to as the “black art” because of its complexity and uncertainty, software estimation is not as difficult or puzzling as ... Steve McConnell on Software Estimation 0 0 0
Visiting Memory Lane Mark Treadwell, January 1, 0001 Today I did some long delayed work and started cleaning out our garage. I needed to free-up space, so I went about straightening up the scattered lumber and tossing out the old and broken things that I ... Visiting Memory Lane 0 0 0
Scrum for Team System Chris J. Breisch, January 1, 0001 Since today is apparently “Agile” day, I’ll mention that Scrum for Team System is now available and you can’t beat the price (free). Scrum for Team System is a free Agile Software ... Scrum for Team System 0 0 0
Pairwise testing Chris J. Breisch, January 1, 0001 There’a a good article on the benefits of pairwise test over at Tyner Blain. I’ve said before that I believe that Extreme Programming is the way to go in the future for software development, ... Pairwise testing 0 0 1