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Is Agile Stifling Introverts?

Topics
Team Collaboration,
Collaboration,
Self-organizing Team,
Kanban,
Group Communication,
Scrum,
Agile Techniques,
Distributed Team,
Teamwork,
Co-Located Teams,
Lean,
Agile

For years Agile has been encouraging teams to work together collaboratively in open spaces and encouraging developers to pair program, but lately these types of practices have been coming under fire.

Information Radiators: Is low tech really better?

Topics
Communication,
Artifacts & Tools,
Distributed Teams,
Group Communication,
Tools,
Teamwork,
Distributed Team,
Information Radiators,
Technology,
Agile,
Data Visualization,
Excel

The Extreme Programming Yahoo Group has been discussing the pros and cons of low tech information radiators, such as task boards, compared to high tech tools. The original poster preferred a physical task board to a spreadsheet, but found himself unable to explain why to his boss. The ensuing discussion uncovered a variety of reasons to choose simple physical means of reporting information.

Filip Hanik on Heterogeneous Cluster Communication Using Apache Tribes

Topics
Messaging,
Java,
Group Communication,
Web Services,
Clustering & Caching,
Languages,
Distributed Team,
Teamwork,
SOA,
Enterprise Architecture,
Programming,
Performance & Scalability,
Infrastructure,
Tomcat,
Architecture,
Agile,
Apache Tribes

Apache Tribes, a Tomcat 6 module, supports group communication in the server cluster. Filip Hanik talked about the challenges in heterogeneous clusters and how Tribes helps with group communication requirements of Tomcat clusters. He did a presentation at SpringOne Americas conference about Tribes messaging framework.