#agile (77 links)
- We're all ops people now times.usefulinc.com
Our programs have left the desktop and found their new home on the web. System administration issues loom large upon us, security concerns lurk auspiciously in the corners of our minds.
- Mr. Yuk Says Project Roadmaps Are Poisonous codesqueeze.com
For some time now, I have thought that high-level project roadmaps (Gantt charts in particular) are one of the most worthless documents that a software project team can produce.
- Geek | Manager » Outsourcing and Test Driven Development blog.geekmanager.co.uk
"For better or for worse** however, many of us are on one side or the other of an outsourcing arrangement. I discovered in my work that using test driven development as a mechanism for both validation (are we building the right thing?) and verification (i
Good Continuous Integration run-through and, ooh, smart Ambient Orb hack!
Pick something small in your organization. Internal systems are usually a good fit [...] Pitch this system as a test balloon for another way of doing things.
- AGILE IN ACTION: Fixed-price contracts don't work think-box.co.uk
If you think it's possible to identify a single date, somewhere off in the future, upon which you'll receive everything you've requested and for a fixed price, then you're setting yourself up for failure and disappointment.
- Coding Horror: Can Your Team Pass The Elevator Test? codinghorror.com
Ask them what they're doing. Then ask them why they're doing it, and keep asking until you get to a reason your customers would understand.
- adaptive path » blog » Dan Saffer » UXweek2007: Leisa Reichelt on Waterfall Bad, Washing Machine Good adaptivepath.com
Notes from Leisa Richelt presentation.
- James Shore: Successful Software jamesshore.com
You can Change Your Organization or Change Your Organization.
- Sleep Overrated sleepoverrated.tumblr.com
Podcast on agile business. [Scott] pulled out some interesting points
- CardMeeting cardmeeting.com
CardMeeting is a free-form sandbox for simultaneous long-distance collaboration.
What project management (PM) is and what it isn't, [...] basics of the project lifecycle, [...] tools that you can use to make your projects run smoother, faster, and easier
- George Dinwiddie’s blog » Studying patterns for Fearless Change blog.gdinwiddie.com
3×5 notecards for studying the patterns in the book, Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas
- Home :: Test Run runtestrun.com
Collaborative test planning that’s just simple enough.
- Adobe edits the development cycle | Reg Developer regdeveloper.co.uk
For years the Adobe Photoshop team has been trying to get away from the traditional death march to a more agile development style. For its CS3 release, it made the jump, with the help of VP Dave Story.
- Creating Passionate Users: What comes after usability? headrush.typepad.com
"Thanks for giving me something useable, well-designed, and useful. Now, can you make it as engaging as a game or sport? Can you keep me so immersed that time and all the clutter of daily existence drops away? Where I'm under a spell that's never broken b
- How Two Hours Can Waste Two Weeks (Agile Advice) agileadvice.com
Your developers have just planned a two week iteration. The next day Sarah continues her work on the completion of an important New Project. And here it comes - Urgent Stuff:
- Getting Real gettingreal.37signals.com
- Bitten - Trac bitten.cmlenz.net
Bitten is a Python-based framework for collecting various software metrics via continuous integration. It builds on Trac to provide an integrated web-based user interface.
- Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile steve-yegge.blogspot.com
It turns out there's a good kind of Agile, although it's taken me a long time to be able to see it clearly amidst all the hype and kowtowing and moaning feverishly about scrums and whatnot.
- Buildix from ThoughtWorks :: project start-up in a box buildix.thoughtworks.com
"An Agile development platform on a disk, with best-of-breed Agile tools, pre-installed and configured on a KNOPPIX-based Linux distribution." Subversion, Trac, CruiseControl
- Welcome to CruiseControl.NET - Confluence confluence.public.thoughtworks.org
CruiseControl.NET is an Automated Continuous Integration server, implemented using the Microsoft .NET Framework.
- Extreme Web Development | And all that Malarkey stuffandnonsense.co.uk
The best known agile methodology is Extreme Programming (XP) and it provides some very interesting ideas for the web development world.