Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
I’ve been using Subversion to host my code on a Windows Home Server box for the past year or so. At about the same time distributed version control systems (DVCS) started to become the “hot new thing”. Git, Mercurial and Bazaar with their associated community hubs; GitHub, BitBucket and Launchpad ...
Tags: agile, Coding, Mercurial
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
Looks like I’ll be speaking in San Francisco in February on the 22nd. Using Agile with Large, Geographically Dispersed Development Teams Distributed and large scale development are a fact of life for many teams. Unfortunately most agile methodologies or approaches assume that ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams, Events, Large teams, San Francisco
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
The dates and venue for next year’s agile conference have been announced. Agile 2010 Agile 2010 is the leading international conference on agile methods in software development. Agile 2010 will be held in Nashville, USA. The conference brings together many disciplines in the ...
Tags: agile, Events
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
I’m speaking at Much Ado About Agile 2009 in Vancouver today. You can find the deck here. I’ve given versions of this talk before to various groups and a lot of details are covered in the white paper I wrote last year. The white paper covers ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams, Events
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
I speaking on “Distributed Agile Development” at Much Ado About Agile IV on Tuesday November 5th. Registration is now open and costs $190-350 CDN.
My last conference in Vancouver was ALT.NET Canada in June. It was a blast, I learnt a lot and got to talk to some great people. So ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams, Events, Vancouver
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Monday, August 31st, 2009
In short I’m working on it. This year’s conference was much lower key than last year but there were still some great takeaways. What hampered me as the the utter lack of decent network coverage. I’ve been to small mountain towns in Peru that did better than the Hyatt in ...
Tags: agile, Chicago, Travel
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Thanks to everyone who attended my workshop on the Scrum Bestiary today at Agile 2009. You can download the deck here. It comes with speaker notes so isn’t completely incomprehensible. The original Scrum Bestiary can was written up as a series of blog posts and summarized ...
Tags: agile, Chicago, Events, Scrum
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Thanks to everyone who attended my talk today at Agile 2009 on Distributed Agile Development and our experiments with it at Microsoft’s patterns & practices team. I’ve been speaking about this on and off for the last year and a half and it’s interesting to see audiences grow as this ...
Tags: agile, Chicago, Distributed teams, Events
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
There were some good comments on my Tooling is a Third Order Effect post a few weeks ago. Tools and how they effect a team’s software development activities is particularly importance when you consider distributed teams because they often adapt their processes quite significantly and make heavy use of ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams, Tools
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
A while back I wrote a white paper on Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft patterns & practices based on the experiences of the distributed teams at Microsoft patterns & practices.
There were a couple of things that didn't make it into the paper which should have and in the year ...
Tags: agile, Chicago, Continuous integration, Distributed teams, Tools
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