Archive for the ‘XP’ Category

Acceptance Test-Driven Development: An Overview

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

Test execution beyond the traditional use of developer unit tests in the Agile community has been debated. Elisabeth Hendrickson has a great article shared on her blog here.

Velocity

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Dhaval Panchal defines and provides usage scenarios for capturing, using, and misusing velocity in this article.

Agile Development Practices 2008: Brian Marick’s “Seven Years Later: What the Agile Manifesto Left Out”

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Here is the video of Brian Marick’s keynote talk at Agile Development Practices 2008.

IDE Feature Request: The YAGNI Development Assistant

Monday, December 8th, 2008

This article contains a funny feature request from Darren Smith for a YAGNI (You Ain’t Gonna Need It) development assistant.

Reaching Hyper-Productivity with Outsourced Development Teams

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Jeff Sutherland and Xebia CTO Guido Schoonheim discuss their success with teams distributed across two locations, Holland and India, with data that shows similar velocity as localized teams in this video.

10 Different Ways to Run a Planning Meeting

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

If your planning meetings are becoming stagnant here are some ideas on how to spice them up from Tom Perry.

Agile-Friendly Test Automation Tools/Frameworks

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Elisabeth Hendrickson gives a run-down of test automation tools and their characteristics in this blog post.

People Do Pair-programming

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Simon Baker has blogged on some ailments, suggestions, and tools that can be used for effective pair-programming in this entry.

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.