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Sprint Zero

Published 26 September 8 5:24 AM | Riaan's Blog : BizTalk

Some teams use a Sprint 0 to prepare their product backlog, the infrastructure (development environment, CI server), ... .Is this part of Scrum? Is it useful? http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/09/sprint_zero Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on...

Filed under: BizTalk, Development, XP, Agile, SCRUM, Integration, .net, information worker

Can SOA be done with an agile approach?

Published 22 September 8 5:51 AM | Riaan's Blog : BizTalk

In this article Martin Fowler looks at SOA and implementing Agile around the concept. http://martinfowler.com/bliki/EvolutionarySOA.html Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg...

Filed under: BizTalk, Agile, SCRUM, Integration, Design, Architecture, SOA

Martin Fowler on Avoiding Common Scrum Pitfalls

Published 4 September 8 5:49 AM | Riaan's Blog

InfoQ interview with Martin Fowler: http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/09/fowler-scrum-interview;jsessionid=947B25BAC575C404042BA6215B59DDAB Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg...

Filed under: Development, Agile, SCRUM, Practices

Industrial XP

Published 3 September 8 5:47 AM | Riaan's Blog

In this interview taken by Sadek Drobi of InfoQ, Joshua Kerievsky, founder of Industrial Logic, talks about Industrial Extreme Programming which extends XP by including practices dealing with management, customers and developers. http://www.infoq.com...

Filed under: XP, Agile, Practices, Scum, Extreme Programming

Stop-the-Line Issues

Published 28 August 8 6:0 AM | Riaan's Blog

This is a very brief and good read forming a part of the concept of technical debt. The author explains why it is important to fix bugs as discovered and not leave them piling up in a bug tracking system. I tend to agree with this approach. http://community...

Filed under: Development, programming, XP, Kanban, Agile, Technical Debt, SCRUM, C#

Scalability Worst Practices

Published 26 August 8 6:29 AM | Riaan's Blog

In this article, former Orbitz lead architect Brian Zimmer discusses scalability worst pratices. Topics covered include The Golden Hammer, Resource Abuse, Big Ball of Mud, Dependency Management, Timeouts, Hero Pattern, Not Automating, and Monitoring....

Filed under: Development, Agile, Practices, patterns

Scrum-ban

Published 19 August 8 6:3 AM | Riaan's Blog

Corey Ladas has written an interesting paper titled Scrum-ban in which he describes how a Scrum team might introduce the lean practice of kanban. He goes on to describe an evolutionary process, which if taken far enough, replaces most of Scrum. Even for...

Filed under: Development, programming, Kanban, Agile, SCRUM, Practices

Kanban as an Agile practice

Published 15 August 8 5:30 AM | Riaan's Blog

This is probably one of the better articles around the concept. I personally love the idea and think this is the way forward for Agile practices. http://www.infoq.com/articles/hiranabe-lean-agile-kanban Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook...

Filed under: Development, XP, Agile, Practices, patterns