Archive for the ‘XP’ 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.

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.

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.

Advantages of TDD

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

A list of advantages and a section on disadvantages of Test-Driven Development (TDD) is presented in this blog entry.

Qualities, User Stories and sad state of Scrum requirements

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

The author of this blog entry describes how user stories are insufficient for quality requirements (aka non-functional requirements) and Chris Sterling has this blog entry on how to use an “Abuse User Story” to describe the cost of not addressing quality attributes in a user story format.

Agile Journal - Infrastructure Refactoring

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Mario
Moreira describes how infrastructure can be refactored in a similar nature as code in this article.