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How Long Should Retrospectives Last?
The original definition of a retrospective, as presented by Norm Kerth, was a 3 day, offsite meeting. In, Agile Retrospectives, we are given 5 phases to be covered, but no specific guidance on time. In her recent article, Rachel Davies suggests that we have 30 minutes per week under review. How long should a retrospective last to be effective?
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Agile Meets Pragmatic Marketing
Pragmatic Marketing is a product management methodology for the technology industry which seeks to apply values and principles similar to those of agile software development. So what happens when the pragmatic marketers meet the agile developers?
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Book Review: Implementation Patterns
Kent Beck's new book, Implementation Patterns, is a book about writing code in Java. The patterns in this book are based on Kent's reading of existing code as well as his own programming habits. The patterns in this book are meant to be a coherent view of how to write code people can understand.
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InfoQ Presentation: Jean Tabaka on Surviving Meeting Burnout
Teams moving to an Agile approach may feel irritated as they move from command-and-control to a collaborative culture - which can start to look like non-stop meetings, starting first thing every Monday morning. In this InfoQ exclusive presentation, recorded at Agile2007, Agile coach Jean Tabaka shared her experiences working with teams, offering guidance on how to alleviate meeting burnout.
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An Agile PM Walks a Mile in a Customer's Shoes
Last year Ternary COO Alexia Bowers walked a mile in a project customer's shoes, and told us how it felt in this Agile2006 Leadership Summit presentation. She stressed the need to meet deadlines through creative solutions, instead of simply cutting scope.
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Agile Events Calendar Update
Dozens of events are listed on the AgileEvents calender, both commercial and non-profit. Events include user groups, coding dojos, training, conferences. All events focus on Agile/Lean process, facilitation, management, product ownership, methodologies and related practices. Where will you spend your training budget? Maybe there's something coming up close to home - wherever you are!
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WebTest vs. Selenium: Real and Simulated Browser Testing
Choosing between functional testing tools that drive a real web browser, like Selenium, and those that simulate a browser, like Canoo WebTest? Marc Guillemot compared the two, and in his opinion, WebTest wins, with a score of 13-5.
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ThoughtWorks Releases Mingle 1.1
Mingle R1.1 is out, just 3 months after after the first release, packed with new functionality driven by user feedback from the launch and beta period. In December R1.2 will be released.
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RSpec Adds Eagerly-Awaited RBehave Functionality for Integration Testing
RSpec is a Behaviour-Driven Development acceptance testing framework for Ruby or Java that enables developers to turn acceptance specifications from the business into executable examples of expected behaviour. Dan North built a separate extension, RBehave, to express story-level integration tests with RSpec. David Chelimsky has now incorporated RBehave-like functionality into the RSpec trunk.
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Opinion: The Implicit Backlog
Last week, we reported on the wastes that are attributed to having a Product Backlog. This week, to keep it interesting, we'll report on the wastes present when a Product Backlog is absent.
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Lisp for Agile Teams
When the developers at Paragent needed to build a web-based IT administration tool, with a bare minimum of time and money, they did it with... Common Lisp? InfoQ asked Paragent CTO Tim Latchey why they chose Lisp, and what it offers to agile development teams.
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InfoQ Interview: Jeff Sutherland on "Who's Doing Scrum"
There are over 10,000 Scrum Masters trained, that's a lot of Scrum! Well: Scrum, variants of Scrum, and Scrum-like processes. Are these distinctions important? Jeff Sutherland told us why he thinks it's important to understand a team's level of adoption - not to label it but to continue improvement. He cited the example of organically growing a Scrum team practice-by-practice at Google AdWords.
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Agile Alliance - Functional Testing Tools
The Agile Alliance held a Functional Testing Tools Visioning Workshop in Portland, OR. InfoQ captures the zeitgeist from community reactions. Join the mailing list and participate.
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Erik Doernenburg on Software Visualization
Software visualization aims to provide a representation of artifacts at an intermediate level of abstraction, which provides enough information to be useful but is at a high enough level that you can perform broadly scoped analysis. In this interview Erik Doernenburg talks with InfoQ about different software visualization strategies using a combination of free tools and custom development.
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Cory Foy on Database Unit Testing
Cory Foy walks developers step-by-step through unit testing logic implemented at the database layer.