Agile and Programming
Nov 25 2008
Michael Bolton won an award for his talk on two futures of software testing. The message of it is in essence for testers to focus on the needs of the business instead of the plan. Even though it’s a presentation it has lots of notes and a lot of nice stuff there that turns testers [...]
Nov 06 2008
Mattias Skarin has a post on Agile for support and operations in 5 min. A bit thin on information, but it has some interesting concepts like kanban boards and visualization of cycle time.
Oct 15 2008
It’s been a little while since they were put online, but if you havn’t seen it check it out. These are my recommendations:
Guerrilla SOA with Jim Webber: Great talk that removes the bullshit from SOA.
Qi4j – a new approach to old problems with Rickard Öberg: A mind boggling way to look at solving our problems.
The [...]
Sep 15 2008
Geoff Watts was in Oslo a while back giving a talk on how British Telecom introduced Scrum to the organisation. Important elements in his talk was how to motivate, and how to let experience gained in some teams propagate to other teams. To summarize in short it was by stating the goal instead of how [...]
Sep 06 2008
It seems like Facebok is pretty agile in how it handles new features and roll outs. According to an article on the High Scalability site they actually do major releases every week. One of the things that struck me was this:
Be Innovative, Not Safe. Fear of failure often shuts down the organizational brain and makes [...]
Sep 01 2008
I’m still out on if the database as a service is a good or bad idea. I am leaning towards the latter though.
One of the scary things most developers do today is refactoring the database. I actually think a lot of good refactorings just isn’t done because it becomes a large and daunting task when [...]
Aug 12 2008
Found some really interesting stuff about automated testing with a tool they’ve dubbed Swim. It basically uses the tests as online documentation. By abstracting actions to the correct level, and supplying generated screenshots every step of the way, tests can be verified and used as documentation. Through Ole Mortens blog. Check out Jon Udells entry [...]
Aug 05 2008
Martin Fowler has an article about Incremental migration. Just goes to show that by dividing problems into smaller increments you will get benefits in most situations. It is important to have the mindset to always look at how you can break a task into simpler parts. Not as easy always, but important.
Aug 02 2008
I went on a trip with three mates to see the western part of Norway this summer. You know, where the fjords and the mountains are. On one of the ferries I came across a poster with the Viking Laws on it. The authenticity could probably be disputed, but they fit nicely into agile software [...]
Jul 02 2008
There’s a scrum alliance wiki that has a list of known scrum smells (think like code smells).
Via Mark Levison.
