Quote from Agile Journal, in their Agile 2007 conference report: “The best leadership came from the large ISVs (e.g., Yahoo, Google, BMC Software) and the boutique consultants (e.g., Valtech) who make their living running worldwide software organizations and who have truly succeeded with Agile practices.”
Eric Lefevre-Ardant on Java & Agile
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CITCON Blogs- Questions an Enterprise CI System Should AnswerIn our webinar on Build-Deploy-Test-Release Automation in the Enterprise (replayable here), we observed that there are a number of questions that cut across teams. These are questions that we suggest than an enterprise system should be able to help with. A couple people asked for the list of questions we presented in the slides. Read on for the full list of […]
- TDD MasterclassI recently attended a two day TDD training course by Jason Gorman. Although we practise TDD on a daily basis, I was interested to see if we are applying all the practises correctly or see if we are missing out on anything. The Jason presented what he called the baker’s dozen of TDD practises. Write a failing test Write the assertion first Don’t refactor with […]
- Simpler Ant Builds With the Ant Script LibraryIntroduction Ant may be unfashionable these days, but it still has its advantages. Key among these are familiarity and simplicity: most Java developers have worked with Ant, and with an Ant build what you get is what you see. A major disadvantage, though, is that Ant provides very little out-of-the-box. When you start [...] […]
- The Agile CIO: Failing Fast and Bad Stand upsRecently I had a chance to speak about Agile with experienced IT professionals from the 2011 class of the UVa McIntire School of Commerce’s MS in Management of Information Technology. (...) […]
- More GAE datastore resourcesThere’s an interesting interview with the creators of Twig, Objectify-Appengine, and SimpleDS, which are all ORM-like frameworks built for the GAE that facilitate working with the underlying datastore (an abstraction of Bigtable). If you haven’t worked with GAE, you need to know that the exposed hip datastore isn’t relational — it […]
- Questions an Enterprise CI System Should Answer
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