Archive for January, 2009

Should UI Design Come Last?

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

Jason Gorman describes the potential problems with creating UI design before creating functionality and the way to approach UI design in a test-driven environment in this article.

Betsy the Cow

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Dhaval Panchal discusses how a Scrum team has used the idea of saving Betsy the cow each sprint to motivate their successful release in this article.

How Good Are You at Single-Tasking?

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Christophe Louvion discusses the misconceptions of handling multiple tasks and describes why we should ask how good are our employees at single-tasking in this article.

Long-term Peer-led Learning - Getting Into Good Habits

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Jason Gorman discusses how he works with teams as a coach to introduce Test-Driven Development (TDD) over extended periods of time in this article.

Roots of Scrum: Takeuchi and Self-Organizing Teams

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Jeff Sutherland has shared with the community a precursor to “The New New Product Development Game” called “Managing the New Product Development Process: How Japanese Companies Learn and Unlearn” in this article.

Agile Product Management

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Socialtext shows how they do agile software development with fully distributed teams from a product management point of view in this video.

Programming in the Small

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Ivan Moore describes how small changes can have larger effects along with his position on particular styles of programming in this series of articles.

Behavior Driven Database Development (BDDD)

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Pramodkumar J. Sadalage describes how Behavior-Driven Development can be used to implement relational database constructs in this article.

What is a team ground rule or team working agreement

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

The Agile FAQ has provided some information on what team working agreements and ground rules are in this article.

Some Things l Need to Know about Programming I Learned In Music College

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Steve Freeman provides this article on how playing music relates to programming.