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  • Lean and Agile: Marriage Made in Heaven or Oxymoron?

    Scrum and agile methods promote the establishment of a product backlog. Some leaders of the Lean community feel that the product backlog is "waste." This article argues that Lean advocates that see backlogs only as "an inventory" of things to be done are making the classic mistake of viewing software development as a production process. Backlogs are fundamental to Agility.

    Dave West
    on Feb 13, 2009

  • What Would Alan Cooper Do?

    The User Interface plays an important role when using an application, be it a desktop application, a web or a mobile one. The book About Face, written by Alan Cooper, a thought leader in user interface design, provides interesting and useful guidance on creating a UI for an application. This article contains some of the book’s most notable ideas.

    Naysawn Naderi
    on Feb 12, 2009

  • Model Driven Development Misperceptions and Challenges

    MDD provides many benefits by improving communication, business-alignment, quality, and productivity. The authors argue that as the tooling support has vastly matured in the past few years, it might be a good time to take a fresh look it. The article reviews 10 common misconceptions.

    Lee Ackerman Bertrand Portier
    on Jan 21, 2009

  • Making TDD Stick: Problems and Solutions for Adopters

    Mark Levison observed that, after solid classroom training, teams in larger companies still struggle to adopt TDD. To better understand the problem he surveyed team members. In this article he shares the problems he uncovered and his own comprehensive strategy, designed to help anyone introducing TDD into an organization.

    Mark Levison
    on Jan 05, 2009

  • BPMN 2.0 Virtual Roundtable Interview

    In this interview we talk with representatives of the BPMN 2.0 standardization effort from Oracle, IBM and SAP. Here they discuss the evolution of BPMN as well as how it relates to other efforts such as XPDL, WS-BPEL and BPEL4People.

    Mark Little
    on Dec 25, 2008

  • Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2008

    This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Interviews, RESTFul Web Integration in Practice, Solutions Track, Performance and Scalability, Being Agile, Ruby in the Enterprise, Cloud Computing, Functional/Concurrent Programming Applied, Effective design and Clean code, and many more!

    Ryan Slobojan
    on Dec 12, 2008

  • The Role of the Analyst in Agile Projects

    Addressing another Agile Myth (we don't need no analysts!), Shane Hastie, Chief Knowledge Engineer at Software Education, outlines how the Business Analyst can help Agile teamwork - when properly aligned with the business, rather than the development team.

    Shane Hastie
    on Dec 05, 2008

  • A Case For Short Iterations

    Dave Nicolette, Agile Coach with Valtech, addresses the question are short iterations better than long. Dave demonstrates that short iterations: allow for more rapid response to change, the opportunity to discover and fix problems more often. He also deals with the concerns that short iterations might lead to burnout and other issues.

    Dave Nicolette
    on Oct 31, 2008
  • Architecture & Design

    No Silver Bullet Reloaded Retrospective OOPSLA Panel Summary

    At OOPSLA 2007, a retrospective discussion panel on Fred Brooks' article, No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering, was held including Fred Brooks himself, Martin Fowler, Ricardo Lopez, Aki Namioka, Linda Northrop, Dave Parnas, Dave Thomas, and Steven Fraser as panel impresario.

    Abel Avram Floyd Marinescu
    on Oct 21, 2008

  • Why BPEL is not the holy grail for BPM

    In the Business Process Modeling world there is still an ongoing standards debate. In this article, Pierre Vigneras of the Bull BPM team, discusses problems with one of those standards - BPEL. Pierre walks us through a simple parallel process and discusses the numerous issues practitioners face in trying to express an unstructured flow based on a structured model.

    Pierre Vigneras
    on Oct 21, 2008
  • Culture & Methods

    "Who Do You Trust?" by Linda Rising

    During Agile 2008, Dr. Linda Rising held a presentation centered on experiments conducted many years ago, presenting how deep, powerfully affecting, and difficult to avoid are human “prejudices” and “stereotypes”. This article is a summary of that presentation.

    Tsutomu Yasui translated by Kazuteru Tajima
    on Sep 23, 2008

  • "Systems Development": a New Discipline for a New Education

    Educator Dr. Dave West discusses “Systems Development”, a new discipline emphasizing humanity, craft, design, creativity, innovation, and emergence - in stark contrast with current university disciplines. West proposes a better educational experience, replacing the sterility of today’s classrooms and labs with the workshop, or “bottega.”

    Dr. Dave West
    on Sep 12, 2008
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