Friday, August 15th, 2008
One of the things that really impressed me at the conference was Industrial Logic's Agile eLearning product/project. I went to two good talks by Joshua Kerievsky (refactoring) and Brian Foote (patterns) both of which demo'ed their eLearning stuff. It's arranged in albums and makes lots of use of videos. ...
Tags: Agile, Coding, News & events, Patterns, TDD, Toronto
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
If you've been in software a while a lot of the time your gut starts to tell you that something feels wrong before you figure out exactly why. This year's Agile 2008 conference gave me several insights into why some things I've had deep reservations about are wrong in a ...
Tags: Agile, Distributed teams, Large teams, News & events, Toronto
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Corey Ladas of Modus Cooperandi talked about "Starting a Kanban System for Software Engineering with Value Stream Maps and Theory of Constraints" The section of this talk that was about applying Kanban to an existing Scrum process, "Scrum-ban", can be found on Corey's blog. What this does for you is ...
Tags: Agile, News & events, Scrum, Toronto
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Bas Vodde's talk on Tuesday "The Trouble With Component Teams And An Alternative". The title is somewhat obtuse, but the talk was great. Essentially he was talking about the problems with scaling very large projects when the teams are focused around the components of the system rather than the features. ...
Tags: Agile, Large teams, Scrum, Toronto
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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
Tuesday I attended a workshop on behavior driven development (BDD) And Ruby by Gregg Pollack. I learnt a bit more about Ruby and finally get the BDD thing. The p&p developers have been playing around with dynamic languages in their spare time and having quite
The slides and sample code are ...
Tags: BDD, Dynamic languages, News & events, 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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