This article is taken from the book The Art of Unit Testing. As part of a chapter on integrating unit testing into your current organization, this segment...
My December DDJ column is now online at http://www.ddj.com/architect/211800534?cid=Ambysoft . As the title suggests it explores the issues surrounding complex...
My October agile update is now online at http://www.ddj.com/architect/211800615?cid=Ambysoft . IT governance, also referred to as systems engineering...
Free Lean Software Development Course Taught On-line by Alan Shalloway Lean-Thinking provides a framework from which to improve virtually any organization's...
An inhibitor that I run into again and again within organizations that are still in the process of adopting agile development techniques is something that I...
My January 2009 column, The Distributed Agile Team, is now online at http://www.ddj.com/architect/212201434?cid=Ambysoft . In many ways it is a case study of...
My December agile update entitled "Agile CMMI:Complimentary or Oxymoronic?" is now available online at http://www.ddj.com/architect/212501388?cid=Ambysoft ....
This article shows how the behavior driven development can be applied to database development and how it can be used to develop and design databases in an...
A recent survey shows that the adoption, ignorance or rejection rates for the CMMI are similar to the results achieved by a similar survey on Agile approaches....
http://xprogramming.com/blog/2009/01/28/pair-programming-how-important-is-it/ Elizabeth Hendrickson hosted a web chat yesterday, attended by her imaginary...
... So is the above sort of V2,0 of Jim Shore's "Extreme Stake in the Ground?" (http://jamesshore.com/Blog/An-Extreme-Stake-in-the-Ground.html) [begin...
Hello, Brad. On Monday, February 2, 2009, at 2:14:06 PM, you ... I am coming to prefer speaking my truth clearly instead of pretending that people don't have...
I’d agree that many teams do not do important technical practices. It is hard to tell what the cause might be, but I’m quite sure it isn’t failure to...
... Except it wouldnt be the first time, and it's not clear why it will be any more successful this time than the previous times (tho I am admittedly hopeful...
... Yes. Actually, I nowadays use "the concepts that guide us when we have to make tough decisions" as the definition for "values". I think I learned that one...
Another fantastic post! On the "Schedule Pressure Destroys Quality" point, I wonder if something similar happened in manufacturing when Lean was being...
Greetings-- Tim Ottinger and I are collaborating on an agile reference index card project. Please visit our blog at <http://agileinaflash.blogspot.com>. ...
... going to get ... --> To my experience the best way is by experience so that people can directly compare within their own environment. Using use cases will ...
Check out these articles about what coaches and teams can do when there is conflict on Agile teams, both at Agile Journal: Handling Conflict on Agile Teams:...
Ward Cunningham posted a video on Technical Debt, and Kent Beck and Ed Yourdan (and I) have been tweeting about it. Let me share some thoughts with you here. ...
Ok, now consider applying their teachings to the matter in the following article: ... Cadre throws tantrum after testing row By Cyril Li | 2008-12-23 | AN...
I was recently interviewed by ZDNet's Adrian Bridgewater about scaling agile approaches, in particular how to take agile approaches to requirements on large...