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Agile Alliance's Agile Development Magazine is Out
For over five years the Agile Alliance has applied various strategies to encourage and support Agile Software Development teams and projects. Recently, they freshened up their members-only quarterly publication called "Agile Development Magazine" and the Winter 2007 edition once again displays the diversity and expertise that characterizes this community.
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InfoQ Presentation: Scrum at the BBC
In this conference talk Andrew Scotland tells how BBC's New Media division, characterized by a lot of uncertainty and emergent software process, decided to use Scrum to more effectively deliver software amidst all that change and uncertainty. Three years later - the difference is significant, and the journey was worthwhile.
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BEA SOA Cost Benefits Survey Results
BEA commissioned a survey on SOA cost/benefits in large comanies in North America and Europe who are doing SOA. 46% of companies intend to deploy 1-50 services within a year, 24% 51-100, and 15% 101-200 services. 75% of companies expected 11-40% reuse. ESB's were listed as the most expensive investment.
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Presentation: Zero Calories J2EE Case study
A lightweight approach with a rich domain model used directly in web-tier can increase both quality and speed of development. This case study, recorded at Javapolis 2005, looks at a Tapestry+Spring+Hibernate project by Nordija, how it was architected, how testability was introduced, and the level of simplicity achieved using the lightweight approach.
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InfoQ Interview: Using Agile for SOA Implementation
Current SOA project guidance generally encourages a phase-based approach, fully defining the solution before implementation begins. This autumn, Digital Focus published their experience with an incremental approach, in "SOA, Meet Agile". InfoQ interviewed both the client and the author of the experience report, and on business-IT alignment.
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InfoQ Case study: IP Telephony Integration
This case study, takes a look under the cover of an IP telephony integration solution from Litescape. The case study gives an architectural overview and then zooms on interesting technical aspects including phone integration with WebEx/LiveMeeting, Java/.NET interop, HTTP vs. IPC communication between systems installed on the same machine, and over all lessons learned from the project.
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Marcel Molina on Amazon S3 Use at 37signals
Yesterday, Marcel Molina Jr. of 37signals (and member of the Rails core-team) announced the initial release of AWS::S3, a ruby library for Amazon's Simple Store Service's (S3) REST API. In this article, Marcel shares insight into the motivations and history behind his promising new library and casts light into how Amazon's web services are transforming the industry.
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Responding to Urgent Requests
In his article "How Two Hours Can Waste Two Weeks," Dmitri Zimine describes the costs associated with changing development priorities after the beginning of an iteration. Joel Spolsky took issue with Dmitri's comments, which in turn were defended and elaborated on by Mishkin Berteig.
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MySpace.com uses iBATIS.NET for persistence
Popular social site MySpace.com, which is the number 5 most trafficked site on the internet according to alexa.com is running a .NET backend and uses iBatis.NET for persistence. iBATIS is an open source data mapper framework that is commonly used when projects wish to control the SQL used instead of having it generated by an ORM framework.
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Drawing Analogies Between Publishing and Agile Development
In a recent blog posting titled "Moving from Software Production to Software Publishing," Gojko Adzic describes how he and his staff applied agile software development techniques to improve the production process at Mikro, the Serbian edition of PC World magazine. He then describes some ways in which the magazine publishing model can be applied to software development.
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Interview: David H. Hansson on the Future of Rails
I had the pleasure of asking my friend David some hard-hitting questions about the future of Rails in the enterprise, profiting from his success and whether a vendor will fork Rails someday. He was very confident and relaxed, so there are tons of entertaining and priceless comments on Rails adoption, service-oriented architecture and scaling Rails applications...
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Experience Report: UK Identity-Fraud Firm uses Agile to Ship in 9 months
Garlik, a UK based identify-fraud security company shared some of their recent success with Agile in an article on computer weekly. They built their main product, Datapatrol, from concept to completion in just 9 months and attributed their success to Agile practices and having a skilled dev team.
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European Leadership Summit at the Agile Business Conference 2006
"Agile Business Conference 2006," will take place next week in London, Europe's largest Agile conference. The first day is dedicated to the Agile Project Leadership Network's "European Leadership Summit." The conference is specifically created to provide practical information to managers and leaders, and it allows attendees to interact directly with industry experts.
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Book Excerpt: Agile Software Development, 2nd ed.
In this updated classic on Agile software development, Alistair Cockburn adds reflections from five more years of practice and research. InfoQ brings you Chapter 1, in which he's compared software development with another team-cooperative game - rock climbing - and two common comparison partners, engineering and model building, in order to explore alternate ways of thinking about the work we do.
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2nd Edition of Alistair Cockburn's Classic Book Published
Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game (2nd ed.) by Alistair Cockburn launched this week, adding new insights in several new "Evolution" chapters. This seminal book for Agile practitioners is now expanded, addressing timely topics like: the controversial relationship between Agile methods and user experience design, Agile and CMMI, and writing "custom contracts."