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Presentation: Agile Architecture Is Not Fragile Architecture
In this presentation filmed during QCon 2007, Coplien and Henney describe how to start with enough architecture to ensure long term success of an Agile developed project.
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Agile 2008 Program Announced
The program for Agile 2008, Expanding Agile Horizons has just been announced. This year the program was This year it features a number of stages (i.e. tracks) from which attendees can sample: Main Stage, Research, Breaking Acts, Questioning Agile, Customers and Business Value, User Experience, Developer Jam, Tools for Agility,...
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When To Use Mock Objects?
In his 'Ode To Code' K Scott Allen offers rational for the use of mock objects when unit testing and discusses his thoughts on the use of mock object frameworks.
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Traceability Matrix in an Agile Project
The relevance of a traceability matrix is to easily perform impact analysis to a changed requirement.However, does a traceability matrix have a place in an Agile project? The post looks at various view points across blogs and mail groups to find a solution.
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Retrospective Failures and How to Avoid Them
What are the typical problems that Retrospectives suffer from? What do we do to avoid them?
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Discussion: Leaner Tools To Better Prepare Undergrads?
Greg Wilson challenged the aa-ftt community to support efforts to improve college graduates ability to deliver "product-quality code". Wilson's request primarily involves providing simplified versions of the tools used by professionals, such that they're digestible by undergraduate students.
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Interview: Rachel Davies on Generic Agile
In this interview taken during Agile 2007, Rachel Davies, director of Agile Alliance, talks about Generic Agile, about the necessity to understand what is the essence of a development process.
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Handling Multiple Versions in a Single Project Team?
Once you're team has released the first version of a product you're faced with the dilemma - how to maintain the first version while continuing to make progress on new releases.
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Presentation: Steve Freeman about Test Driven Development
In this presentation filmed during QCon 2007, Steve Freeman, an independent consultant, talks about TDD, why is it helpful and gives an example on doing it.
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Handling Interruptions on an Agile Project
Interruptions on a project, are known to, damage the flow of work. A discussion on the Extreme programming group and Alistair Cockburn with his "Sacrifice one person" pattern suggest ways to handle interruptions so that the impact on the project is minimized.
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Presentation: Jeff Sutherland Talks about Companies Adopting Agile
In this presentation, Jeff Sutherland, the co-creator of Scrum Agile Development Process, talks about small and large companies which are adopting Agile.
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Agile Certification a Community Driven Proposal
S.M. Kripanidhi has proposed a "Community Certified Agile Practitioner", driven by the needs of practitioners, potential employers and the community. He suggests that we use local communities to judge if the practitioner is worthy of certification.
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VersionOne announces V1: Team Edition
VersionOne recently launched V1: Agile Team giving smaller projects a tool to get started with planning and tracking Agile projects. With V1: Agile Team a single team has the capability to their product and sprint backlogs, get interactive "taskboards" and "testboards" for day to day development activities, view progress of activities through various reports and burn graphs, and more.
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NUnit 2.5 Alpha released
NUnit one of the original .NET Unit Testing frameworks has just released its 2.5 Alpha. Altough there is only a minor version number change there are a significant number of new features, including: Support for Data Driven Tests, a Parallel Test Runner, ...
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Results of Agile Adoption Survey 2008
In February 2008, Dr. Dobb's conducted a survey on Agile adoption and the success rate of Agile software development. The survey revealed some interesting results on various parameters, including: adoption, scalability, iteration length, and team location.