Archive for the ‘Methodology’ Category

Agile testing, how to transition from waterfall method

A great presentation, coming from a professional tester. Even if the talk was delivered some years ago, it’s still very actual and helps tester embrace the change from the traditional, up-front requirements projects, to agile practices.

Checklist for the Agile Manager

To be a leader is not the next step for managers. It is the manager’s job to leave room to leaders.
Checklist for the Agile Manager
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The Zen of Scrum 1.0

The Zen of Scrum 1.0
View more presentations from Jurgen Appelo. (tags: projectmanagement development)

More democratic than Scrum – Erich Gamma on Eclipse

I like this guy, I’ve never seen him before (even though he’s a member of the GoF), he has a funny accent and uses it to tell us how Eclipse development has evolved over the years. As many of us use Eclipse as a base of our development (or derivates, like Aptana), I think it [...]

Salesforce.com – Adopting SCRUM & XP [Presentation]

Salesforce.com – Adopting SCRUM & XP [Presentation]

Should my company use Scrum?

So you’re a company delivering software and you’ve heard of this new way of doing things, have investigated it, but you’re skeptical as how the legal aspects are handled. You might be in one of these two states of mind:

you embrace the idea of tailoring the final solution while developing it, because you would get [...]

Writing code is an art, not a simple day-job

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Copy and paste is a design error.
David Parnas
 
Think about how you develop your own code.
Do you rush into writing a piece of code and use comments later, if you have any time left? Or do you [...]

The way software is built matters

If you emphasize quality at the beginning of the project, you plan for, require, and design a high-quality product. If you start the process with designs for a Pontiac Aztek, you can test it all you want to, and it will never turn into a Rolls-Royce. You might build the best possible [...]

Scrum, the basics

What is it? An iterative incremental process of product development from the Agile family. We are all tekkies here, so it’s assumed as a process of software development.
A-ha! So it is just another way of organizing one team’s work.
Well, not quite “yet another way of…”. It provides a framework for applying all the Agile good [...]