Eric Hagan05/10/10
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Eric Lefevre says CI can be fun to implement, but you can also get carried away. Algodeal gave up their CI server in favor of running systematic tests on developers' machines before checking in code. Lefevre suggests that companies put a lot of emphasis...
Michael Sahota05/10/10
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Mary Poppendieck gave her
usual well-researched and convincing tour-de-force presenation at LSSC10
on several approaches to organizational change with a talk titled
“What’s wrong with targets?”
The purpose of the whole talk is to trash Management...
Jurgen Appelo05/07/10
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This is another video of a talk that I did in Cluj, Romania. Like the one I
posted last week, it was organized by the Transylvania Java User
Group and ISDC.So, Now You're An Agilist... What's Next? from Jurgen Appelo on Vimeo.So, Now You're An Agilist,...
Adam Leggett05/06/10
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Since Mike‘s
inception we have always sought to automate as much of our testing as
possible. For some time now we have been using Selenium for our
functional/acceptance tests, and thus far have been very happy with this
approach. Initially, we...
Eric Hagan05/06/10
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Mario Cardinal believes there should be more focus on Layers and their interfaces rather than objects. One of the tools in Visual Studio's Team Foundation is the layer diagram, which helps teams look at the layer perspective. The layer diagrams make it...
Julian Simpson05/06/10
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Video number two of the DevOps
meeting is Stephen
Nelson-Smith of Atalanta
Systems bravely doing his talk – sans slides due to laptop
failure(this is why I keep my talks on GitHub). It seems that the
technology problems didn’t end there,...
Mohammad Juma05/06/10
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Being a good TTL is not it easy … what are the things that TTL needs
to have ?
Below are my convictions about this:
1) Solid Technical.
2) Ability to break down tasks.
3) As John Maxwell said “Leaders must be close enough to relate to...
Janko Jovanovic05/06/10
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After publishing the article Redesign
process of JankoAtWarpSpeed, I was criticized by some people that I
used Scrum "improperly". This related to uneven iterations, non
adequate documentation and the fact that I was alone in the...
Jared Richardson05/06/10
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Risk management is a buzzword that managers and CTOs know well. Risky things, by definition, entail risk. And risky things, when they fail, tend to make these same managers and CTOs look bad. So anytime they can find a way to manage and minimize risk, they do...
Eric Hagan05/05/10
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Scott Westfall is the VP of software development for the SlickEdit tool. He says that SlickEdit's President/CEO is also their CTO and the head developer on the product. Westfall says he enjoys coming up with new features that can remove the frustrations that...
Eric Hagan05/05/10
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Continuous integration evolved from the daily build. In the late nineties and early 2000's, Continuous Integration evolved out of eXtreme Programming and took daily builds to the 'extreme' level, where you're building every time there's a change committed...
Mike Cottmeyer05/05/10
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What if you are a manager that wants to do Scrum? You ask yourself
if it's possible to encapsulate the entire value stream into a single
Scrum team? What if you learn that the answer is no? What if you think
this through even further, and discover...
Jared Richardson05/05/10
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Most developers think that graphs and charts are for weak-minded managers who like pretty colors. And they couldn't be more wrong. The problem is actually the arrogance of many developers. Whether or not we'd like to admit it, we think we are pretty darn...
Wendy Devolder05/05/10
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Following on from the success of last year, this annual event for the UK's enterprise software architect community will have architectural innovation as a theme this year, and particularly CQRS. We will feature leading thinkers and architects who will share...
Eric Hagan05/04/10
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Jay Flowers says that in setting up a CI system, many organizations want to 'recreate the wheel'. Tools like CI factory can take care of that initial setup so you don't have to do that on every project. Another pitfall is not running enough unit tests...
Jurgen Appelo05/04/10
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Leadership is a term used by many, but sometimes understood by only a
few. Again and again I feel compelled to question ideas about
leadership that seem to be based on beliefs, rather than science.
In my opinion, there are two groups of people...
Michael Sahota05/04/10
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Arlo Belshee and Jim Shore had an interesting pair presentation on
titled “Single Piece Flow in Kanban” at LSSC10. A more accurate
(although inflammatory) name for the talk is “Enough Kanban! Use XP for
Single-piece flow”. It is worth mentioning...
Giorgio Sironi05/04/10
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As a software developer, it's common to learn new practices every day. Although there are jokes about how the more a programmer ages, the more his lines of code counter goes sky high even to accomplish simple tasks, usually this process results in an overall...
Lyndsey Clevesy05/03/10
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Get Started with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5!This in-depth introduction to JBoss
Enterprise Application Platform 5 is a must have for Java EE beginners and senior architects alike. It'll take you from
installation all the way to the deployment...
Eric Hagan05/03/10
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Jez Humble says that last mile between development completion and production can be expensive and painstaking because teams aren't always prepared for it. His book discusses the importance of making sure that everything you check-in to version control gets...
Jurgen Appelo05/03/10
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This is a video of the talk that I did in Cluj, Romania. It was
organized by the Transylvania
Java User Group and ISDC.The Zen of Scrum from Jurgen Appelo on Vimeo.The Zen of ScrumView more presentations from Jurgen Appelo.View more presentations from...
Jared Richardson05/03/10
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What's the difference in smart and dumb? I've come to believe it's two things. How far ahead you can think into the future and how quickly you can do that thinking.When someone is playing chess, pool, or poker, their skill is determined by how many moves...
Jurgen Appelo04/30/10
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I sometimes get the feeling that there are two versions of
Scrum. The first version is the one that says that “Scrum
is not a methodology, a defined process or set of procedures. it's an
open development framework.” (Jeff Sutherland) and “Scrum is...
Eric Hagan04/29/10
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Jeffrey Fredrick is an internationally recognized CI expert and a technical evangelist at Urban Code. In this interview, Fredrick discusses how a software organization can improve its build and release process with Lean. He believes that Lean is the next...
Jared Richardson04/29/10
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I have a co-worker who's never happy. Never. But today it's even worse. He just lost an hour or two of his work. He was writing code that deleted a large number of files, and due to an error in the code, it deleted everything- including the script he was...
