Thursday, August 7th, 2008
My talk on the patterns & practices Service Factory:ME team's experiences with Continuous Integration (CI) and our data analysis of the CI and Team Foundation Server logs is this morning at Agile 2008. You can find the presentation for this talk here:
One Hundred Days of Continuous Integration - slide deck
One ...
Tags: Agile, Best practices, Continuous integration, Distributed teams, Microsoft, News & events, p&p, Static analysis, Toronto
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
This is a dump of all the suggestions that came up during the "What Makes Distributed Agile Projects Succeed (or Fail)?" workshop by Chris Sims on Tuesday afternoon. I've highlighted the ones what the group agreed were the top three.
Tags: Agile, Distributed teams, News & events, Toronto
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
The opening keynote speaker is James Surowiecki. It's a great talk! I'm tempted to buy his book. He had some great pointers into how to use the decision making process of crowds and best practices on how not to skew the crowds results. Some of this plays right back into ...
Tags: Agile, News & events, Toronto
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
This year's agile conference is bigger, and better than before. This leads to the problem of what the hell to go and listen to. Here's my strategy for the week...
Tags: Agile, News & events, Toronto
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Bumping into lots of people I haven't seen much throughout the year, including Mitch Lacey, David Anderson (of Modus Cooperandi) and Chris Sterling, it's only Monday morning! There's a lot of people from Microsoft here, including several speakers. This is nice to see, as it's a reflection of the ...
Tags: Agile, News & events, Toronto
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
The Agile Beer nights are back. Check out http://agilebug.com/ for more details:
We the practitioners of Agile and users of Beer, hereby proclaim Agile Beer Night.
The Agile Beer Users Group (Seattle Chapter) will be meeting on Thursday Aug 21, for information sharing, networking, agile discussions, a brief topic presentation on Automated Acceptance ...
Tags: Agile, News & events, Seattle
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Another addition to the Scrum Bestiary. So we all know about Scrum’s pigs and chickens and a while back I wrote about seagulls. What about cows?
The big difference is that cows give milk, they will contribute to the team if asked. Chickens and seagulls never contribute they just get in ...
Tags: Agile, Scrum
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Playing music in your team room? Who gets to pick it and for how long? Here's the "rules" we use in the patterns & practices team rooms:
Music rotates each hour
Everyone gets an hour to play the music they want
At the end of the hour someone else gets the next hour
At ...
Tags: Agile, Best practices
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Alistair Cockburn (pronounced co-burn) maintains that software development is a cooperative game.
Others have described software development as exactly the opposite, a game where the participants do not cooperate - see Analyzing Software Development as a Noncooperative Game (pdf).
I think I'm with Alistair on this one while the alternative point of ...
Tags: Agile, Metaphors
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
A couple more sources someone pointed me to on distributed agile. Worth a read but for the lazy I've summarized some key points here: Elastic Path uses Distributed Agile and Outsourcing to Stay on Top in Fast-Paced E-Commerce Software Choose a vendor with experience in ...
Tags: Agile, Distributed teams
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