agile

Test as a Design Spec

One of a frequently encountered question in enterprise software development is where does the hand off happen from the architect (who design the software) to...

0 replies - 674 views - 06/09/08 by riho in News

Introducing the A-* Stack

There are so many frameworks, architectural styles, tool stacks from which to choose. Perhaps, there are too many. Yet none of them are able to solve all...

0 replies - 3027 views - 06/04/08 by Aslam Khan in Articles

Where's the glue?

0 replies - 306 views - 05/30/08 by Chris Spagnuolo in News

Agile adoption: Why isn't this stuff working?

Lately I've been hearing feedback from lots of different people that they've "adopted" agile and it's just not working for them. This always causes...

0 replies - 1195 views - 05/28/08 by Chris Spagnuolo in News

Short Term Teams

One of the key benefits of agile and Scrum is the growth and maturing of the teams that work together. The longer a team works together, the more it learns...

0 replies - 275 views - 05/27/08 by Chris Spagnuolo in News

The Case for Colocation

I've been thinking a lot about the colocation of agile development teams (or any development team for that matter). Some people argue that collocated team...

5 replies - 1954 views - 05/21/08 by Chris Spagnuolo in News

Agile Project Management

For agile project management, agile development methodologies, such as Scrum and eXtreme Programming, alone are not enough.Scrum is excellent for managing a...

0 replies - 916 views - 05/09/08 by Kelly Waters in News

Small Code Commits

If you've got features lasting weeks or months, then adding a single feature is a huge amount of code.  When you want a team to add one feature or fix one...

0 replies - 358 views - 04/25/08 by Jared Richardson in News

Future of Architecture: The Template

I remember like it was yesterday the day I was sitting at my desk back in 2005, watching the now famous Ruby on Rails screencast on how to create a blog in 15...

2 replies - 4148 views - 04/07/08 by Steven Devijver in News

Agilo for Scrum - Effective Scrum Tool with online Whiteboard for distributed teams

Agilo for Scrum is a simple, web-based and straightforward tool to support the Scrum process.

6 replies - 11559 views - 02/21/08 by Marion in Announcements

Architect's Dilemma: Designing Up-Front?

Do you ever feel that sometimes designing up-front makes sense? Does it feel like a more organized, more controllable way of working? Does it ever make sense...

6 replies - 1526 views - 02/15/08 by Steven Devijver in News

The YAGNI Argument (You Ain't Gonna Need It)

One of the biggest challenges for any architect to overcome is the YAGNI argument - You Ain't Gonna Need It. YAGNI says: there may be value in having this...

2 replies - 2524 views - 02/14/08 by Steven Devijver in News