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Posted by Sprint-IT on Nov 02, 2006
The Checklists are printed on cover stock and spiral bound, which creates a book that is attractive and easy to handle. The Overview with coloured index matches the coloured tabs on the right, to give fast access to the different Checklist pages. Use the blank space on the back of each checklist to document individual conventions and specific adaptations. Support the author as well as future InfoQ books by purchasing the print copy for only 19,90 euro.
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The book is not intended to teach the details of Scrum, and no book will replace intelligent team self-organization. Instead, this book was created to give trained teams confidence in accomplishing their first Sprints. The full list of topics is explained in an Overview page and tabs down the right edge give fast access to the colour-coded topics:
Learning to be a Good Product Owner: Foundation Skills
Technical Debt and Design Death
Brian Marick takes us through a quick tour of the most important values and challenges to adopting Agile successfully (they aren't the typical challenges and values we hear in the community).
The line between development and architecture is tricky. Does it exist at all? Is an ivory tower actually needed? There's a balance in the middle, but how do you move from developer to architect?
The word 'authority' sometimes produces an allergic response in hard-line agilists. Freedom and authority – both are bad if misused and both are good if used in right spirit for a noble cause.
"Getting Started with Grails" brings you up to speed on this modern web framework. Companies as varied as LinkedIn, Wired, and Taco Bell are all using Grails. Are you ready to get started as well?
Those familiar with only ITIL V2 often scoff at the thought that ITIL could serve as a governance framework for SOA. With ITIL V3, the focus of the framework shifted towards service-orientation.
SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer discusses AspectJ, SpringSource's dm Server and tc Server products, OSGi and Scrum.
Heroku's Adam Wiggins talks about Rails, Background Jobs, Add-Ons, Ruby, and how Heroku manages to work around Ruby's inefficiencies using Erlang and other languages.
For Grady Booch the foundation of a good architecture is patterns, SOA being just one of many patterns. In this Second Life presentation, Booch attempts to bring more clarity on what architecture is.
