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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

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#

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