Archive for August, 2009
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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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
What are Big Visible Charts? Ron Jeffries defines them as: “A simple chart on the wall can bring important information to the attention of the team, the customer, and everyone else who passes through the area.” - Ron Jeffries You’ll ...
Tags: Continuous integration, Distributed teams, Static analysis
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
This is a bit like the Scrum Bestiary minus the continual references to farmyard animals. Instead I’ll be using diagrams as a visual aid. Not as amusing but trust me I tried. This is a work in progress and incomplete. I’m working on it as part of ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
Got a couple of minutes to provide the patterns & practices team with feedback? We’re trying to find out more about who’s using our products and how happy they are with them. Take the survey here: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB229HEVSWBED It really is a couple of minutes. There’s a dozen ...
Tags: p&p
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
A lot of the time the first question a lot of people ask about agile and distributed agile in particular is: “Which tool or product should I buy for me and my team?” This isn’t a bad question provided everyone involved understands that tools ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams, Tools
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