BT

Facilitating the Spread of Knowledge and Innovation in Professional Software Development

Write for InfoQ

Topics

Choose your language

InfoQ Homepage Agile Content on InfoQ

  • 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.

  • Retrospective Failures and How to Avoid Them

    What are the typical problems that Retrospectives suffer from? What do we do to avoid them?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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, ...

  • 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.

  • InfoQ China Colour Scheme Goes Gray in Consideration of Earthquake Victims

    As China began a three-day official mourning period from May 19th for victims of the May 12 earthquake that happened in Sichuan Province in southwestern China, InfoQ China joined other tech sites and on Monday and changed the whole site's colour scheme to gray as an act to express its mourning.

  • Presentation: Agile Project Lifecycle in User Stories and Release Planning

    In this presentation recorded during QCon London 2007, Rachel Davies, director of Agile Alliance, talks about the Agile development cycle starting with user stories and planning the releases.

  • What Makes a Good Stand Up Meeting?

    One of the most simple and yet most talked-about agile practices is the Daily Stand Up Meeting (a.k.a. Scrum). The most recent round of discussions around the subject is occurring right now on the scrumdevelopment Yahoo! group. This discussion has resulted in suggestions about what is important about a Daily Stand Up, how to perform one correctly, and several links to articles on the subject.

BT