Agile

An Introduction to Feature-Driven Development

Feature-Driven Development (FDD) is one of the agile processes not talked or written about very much. Often mentioned in passing in agile software development...

3 replies - 1055 views - 11/20/09 by stephenrpalmer in Articles

The Benefits of Testable Code

One of the most beneficial approaches that you can take in software development is to follow a test driven development approach. While we all understand why...

1 replies - 3175 views - 11/17/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Knowledge Management: It's All About Granularity

In my pursuit of the ideal collaboration platform, I’ve tested a few knowledge management systems lately: Knowledge Plaza, Seemy, a combination of...

0 replies - 768 views - 11/12/09 by Sebastien Arbogast in News

An Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.  It is based on an estimation technique known as Wideband...

0 replies - 3497 views - 11/11/09 by AgileForAll in Articles

Book Giveaway & Exclusive Chapter Download: Agile Coaching

DZone and Pragmatic Bookshelf have partnered to bring you this exclusive chapter from 'Agile Coaching' by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley. This excerpt was...

3 replies - 683 views - 11/11/09 by lyndsey in Articles

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/2

Sun's stock price has fallen to 16% less than Oracle's offer price for the company.  It appears that more investors are concerned that the Sun acquisition...

0 replies - 3525 views - 11/02/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Process Not Working -- Must Have More Process

After all, programmers are all lazy and stupid.Got his complaint recently."Developers on a fairly routine basis check in code into the wrong...

1 replies - 803 views - 10/28/09 by slott in News

Breaking into Agile

I had a recent conversation with some folks who were desperate to "processize" everything. They were asking about Scrum Master certification and what...

0 replies - 550 views - 10/22/09 by slott in News

Top ALM Tools and Solutions Providers

A good application lifecycle management (ALM) package has software that is able to carefully manage and monitor all aspects of software development.  ALM...

3 replies - 2850 views - 10/21/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

An Agile Team in Flux

In late 2008, ThoughtWorks was called in to remove legacy systems and initiate an Agile cultural shift for a large international communications firm. ...

0 replies - 1158 views - 10/17/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Danube's Michael James on Scrum Adoption

Scrum is beginning to emerge as an increasingly popular choice for organizations seeking to improve software quality, decrease time-to-market, and stay...

0 replies - 5512 views - 10/08/09 by lyndsey in Videos

Pair Programming - Dispelling the Conspiracy

Richard Stobart has written an excellent article over at ITWales.com that provides some very interesting perspectives on the practice of pair programming. ...

2 replies - 3096 views - 09/30/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

Exclusive Interview: VP Sue McKinney on IBM's Agile Transformation

If there were ever any doubts about agile's ability to scale within large organizations, Sue McKinney might have some encouraging words of advice. The VP of...

0 replies - 5753 views - 09/24/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Agile Architecture, Lean Principles

Most of my discussions surrounding agile architecture have been focused on exploring how modularity helps increase architectural agility. I claim that...

1 replies - 2916 views - 09/23/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles

Exclusive Interview: IBM's Chief Agile Methodologist, Scott Ambler

In this interview, recorded at the recent Agile 2009 conference in Chicago, Scott Ambler, Chief Methodologist for Agile at IBM Rational, shares his findings...

0 replies - 8268 views - 09/18/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos