Archive for the ‘Developer’ Category

Studies of Test-Driven Development

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

George Dinwiddie has collected studies on Test-Driven Development (TDD) in the software industry here.

Misconceptions with Test-Driven Development

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Mark Levison again provides great information about an important Agile development topic, Test-Driven Development (TDD), in this blog entry.

Dirty Rotten ScrumDrels

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Uncle Bob has provided another interesting piece that focuses on the responsibility of people to do good work on their software projects.

Agile Development Projects and Usability

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Jakob Nielsen has written an article on usability in Agile development projects with some general guidelines and links to in depth research into best practices and a 2-day course.

The Decline and Fall of Agile

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Jim Shore has written a controversial and directed piece on the state of Agile and it’s future in this article.

Agile Development Practices Keynote by Brian Marick (Text)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Brian again provides an essential work to the Agile community. Find out how to “work with ease” reading the text of his keynote from the Agile Development Practices conference here.

Scrum is Not the Silver Bullet

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

A video with multiple people in the agile community has been created to discuss what causes Scrum and agile to fail at this location.

Tasty Cupcakes: Experiential Learning Games

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

The “Tasty Cupcakes” site has a plethora of experiential learning games that may be of interest to teams, coaches, and trainers.

Agile: Anatomy of a failed project

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

This article describes a presentation from Mitch Lacey on “When Working Software is Not Enough: A Story of Project Failure” with significant details about what lead to the failure.

Podcast with Brian Marick on His Upcoming Keynote at Agile Development Practices Conference

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Brian Marick, Agile Manifesto signatory, discusses his upcoming keynote at the Agile Development Practices conference in Orlando, “Seven Years Later: What the Agile Manifesto Left Out”, here.