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agile 2008 - Doug Bradbury - Agility, Religion, Beliefs and Practice
Podcast

Bob interviews Doug Bradbury about 8th Light.

Bob Payne's picture Bob Payne
Configuring CruiseControl for Continuous Integration Builds

Michael Sayko introduces CruiseControl, which enables the implementing CI of Java applications. Using CruiseControl's build loop, dashboard, and build resultsJSP, Michael shows how any Java development team can receive added value through this open source tool.

Michael Sayko
Agile 2008 - Jochen Krebs - Agile PMO, Agile Portfolio Managment, Scrum and More
Podcast

Bob speaks with Jochen Krebs about his portfolio management book and scaling agile.

Bob Payne's picture Bob Payne
A Word with the Wise: Configuration Management Tips from Steve Berczuk

In this short interview with editor Joey McAllister, Steve Berczuk offers some tips to organizations dealing with configuration management (CM) issues.

Joey McAllister's picture Joey McAllister
Transitioning from Analysis to Design

The step between specifying requirements to working on a system design can be tricky. Fortunately, the basis on which the step is made can be calculated. Paul Reed thoroughly explains how the transition should progress and offers some instructions on how to move properly through this phase.

Paul R. Reed, Jr.'s picture Paul R. Reed, Jr.
Seven Years Later: What the Agile Manifesto Left Out
Video

Brian Marick believes that is partly because the manifesto is focused outwardly; it tells the business how the development team will work with it. Watch Brian’s presentation to find out whether you're really doing agile or if you are agile in name only.

Brian Marick
Little Scrum Pigs and the Big, Bad Wolf

While continuing to grow, the state of agile adoption seems to be plucked straight out of an Ayn Rand novel, where the acceptance of mediocrity has infected the masses like a plague. Half-hearted adoptions have led to half-hearted results (as in "we suck less") that in turn are leaving these organizations straddling a tipping point from which they more often than not slide backwards, rather than making the push over the top to high performance and exponential growth in ROI.

Michele Sliger's picture Michele Sliger
product quality assessment Simple Strategies to Keep Quality Visible

In most projects, testers are the keepers of quality. Sharing the vision of quality with the entire team helps everyone involved in a project play a more active role in determining the state of quality in a product. In this column, Jeff Patton shares several innovative ideas he's seen in practice lately that have helped an entire team own up to the quality of its software.

Jeff Patton's picture Jeff Patton
Agile 2008 - Emily and Geoff Bache - Programming with the Stars and the TextTest framework
Podcast

Bob speaks with Emily and Geoff Bache at the Agile 2008 conference.

Bob Payne's picture Bob Payne
Getting Started with Agile SCM

A prerequisite to any of the Agile SCM practices, such as integration build, private build, unit tests, and the like, is being able to set up a developer’s private workspace with the right code and tools so that you can code, build and test. In this article, we discuss the important, and often overlooked process of creating a development workspace, which is to say, getting started.

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