Agile Software Development - Q & A

Agile Engineering Practices Training - October 21-23 - Fairfax, VA

mblack — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:49:39 +0000

CC PACE TRAINING: LEAN & AGILE TRAINING: AGILE ENGINEERING PRACTICES

DESCRIPTION
The three-day Introduction to Test Driven Development (TDD) and Refactoring in Java training program mixes interactive lectures with intense, hands-on lab activities. The course prepares Java development teams seeking to begin an Agile software development project. We accelerate your transition to Agile by sharing our real-world experiences and teaching you the fundamentals.

COURSE TOPICS
Developer Testing, Writing and running unit tests , Test-driven development (TDD), Pair-programming with TDD , Simple and advanced mocking , Testing legacy code, Database testing , Functional Testing, Web Testing, Code Metrics and Refactoring, Refactoring principles, Code smells, Refactoring patterns, Using Metrics

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Developers working on Agile projects who wish to leverage Test-Driven Development concepts to focus their development efforts and sustain code quality and throughput.

PREREQUISITES
Knowledge of and some experience with Agile is recommended.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Explain and implement a Test-Driven Development framework
Apply appropriateAgile engineering practices to support Test-Driven Development
Write appropriately constructed unit tests

huge story

wellidy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:45:54 +0000

Hi,

iÂ´m begginer in agile way. In the first job following this way, one of the first doubt happend when one feature for the next version of my product is a huge story and is the must important.

The doubt is: is it really a story?

Reading in this site about epics and themes, i was confused. Cause epics are low priority and this is not my case.

Here, with the team, we consider this is a feature and we split it in 7 storys.

What you think or advise me?

tks in advance.

Announcing XP Days Benelux 2008, 20-21 November 2008 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands

martinig — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:42:23 +0000

The fifth edition of the XP Days Benelux conference will be held in Eindhoven. Two days packed full of agile experience, practical knowledge and sharing. Whatever your level of experience, role or industry, this is the place to be if you want to know what "agile" really is.

http://www.xpday.net

I need some help

jabbar22 — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:11:29 +0000

I hv This Q If anyone can help me, I'll be greatful.
Q: While XP fulfils all the 12 principals of Agile, why there are many other models (like DSDM and SCRUM) under Agile are being introduced?

Agile Methods for the Support Teqam

jwwillis55 — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:10:13 +0000

We are currently switching to the Agile methodology for our development teams and it is working rather well. We also have separate application maintenance and support teams to support our products. We would like to start using the Agile methods for those teams. Due to the nature of out support teams they do not have a cut and dry fit into the methodology.
I have not seen any articles talking about using Agile in this type of organization. Would anyone have or could direct me to any information in regards to this area?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank You
jwwillis55@gmail.com

DevWeek India 2008- No Marketing Bushwah, Only Real Information

Jax — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:33:02 +0000

When was the last time you attended a conference or an event where technology used in our day-to-day work was given the first priority? Well, if your answer is â€˜Not in Recent Timesâ€™ then DevWeek India 2008 is the right place for you to gather cutting-edge information on technology that is needed for you daily work. Revolution

After organizing successful conferences like JAX India 2007, JAX India 2008 and SOA India 2007, S&S Media (India) has taken charge of yet another comprehensive in-depth event on Java, ASP.NET and Dynamic Languages, better known as DevWeek India 2008.

The panel of speakers at DevWeek India 2008, which includes Neal Ford, Ted Neward and Michael Li, take you through a broad range of half-day and full-day tutorial specially designed for your needs giving you the unique opportunity to delve into several technologies such as AJAX, .NET, Ruby and Rails, Agile, SQL Server and more. These vendor-neutral speakers make sure that there is no marketing bushwah but only real and relevant information.

DevWeek India 2008 gives you a rare chance to meet your peers in a productive and social environment and get passionate about Software programming. By the end of DevWeek India 2008, you will learn how to increase your productivity dramatically and save cost, and how to enhance the quality of your software applications.

DevWeek India 2008 is scheduled to get underway on the 25th of August till the 28th of August 2008 at NIMHANS Auditorium, Bangalore, India.

Who should attend an event like this?
Well, software developing is all about passion and we at S&S Media (India) offer you the passion for developing back! Starting from developers to software architects, project managers, project leaders, software testers, database administrators and web developers, everyone has something to learn from DevWeek India 2008.

With so much to offer in DevWeek India 2008, you surely canâ€™t ask for more!

For more information please log on to:
http://www.devweek.in

Cards vs Docs

Artem — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:51:56 +0000

Janne's Law of Engineering: I've come to the hypothesis that "all engineering problems can be solved through the methodical appliance of yellow stickers."

I personally prefer index cards, but it is anyway about cards. I find it amazing how a lot of things become simpler after they "become" tangible cards.

What is your best way for solving engineering problems? Cards? Talks? Drawings? Google?

Conflict of interests on the retrospectives

Artem — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:49:32 +0000

Lately Patrick Kua described a retrospective that went all wrong after a tech lead (i.e. person who has strong personal/technical interests in the project) was leading a retro into a direction he wanted.

I also witnessed similar situation in my own practice. At times a person that "just knows how to do it right" is tempted to push his solution no matter what. Often it is the person most competent technically that is assigned to the Scrum Master or Coach role. Such an assignment creates a conflict between his personal interests and interests of the whole team.

Did you experience such situations? What was the result? How did the situation change over time?

Regarding making this website more interesting

pkaarthikeyan — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:51:50 +0000

Dear Artem,

To make this website more interesting and more people participating in the discussions please include a feature using which we can upload pictures in the Profiles...or some icons atleast.

Thanks
Karthikeyan

Web 2.0 + Agile development + Tacit Knowledge

pinastro — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:32:28 +0000

I have consolidated some good definitions and principles on the topics Agile Development / Tacit Knowledge / Web 2.0

What Wikipedia says about Tacit Knowledge :

" ...Tacit knowledge is knowledge that people carry in their minds of people and is, therefore, difficult to access. Often, people are not aware of the knowledge they possess or how it can be valuable to others. Tacit knowledge is considered more valuable because it provides context for people, places, ideas, and experiences. Effective transfer of tacit knowledge generally requires extensive personal contact and trust.

Tacit knowledge is not easily shared. One of Polanyi's famous aphorisms is: "We know more than we can tell." ... "

Agile Manifesto Says :

"..We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more .. "

Web 2.0 principles says:

"...web 2.0 is sometimes called the e-Democracy which has the 'architechture of participation' as the base..."

Does the above words have any relationships within them ?