Is anyone using Kanban?
Is anyone using Kanban (or scrumban) for the agile management practices? What is your experience with Kanban? How does it work in large complex environments with dependencies on waterfall projects? ...
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Are user stories the same as Yourdon's events?
Are user stories (typically used in agile development or test driven development) the same thing as events in Edward Yourdon's structured analysis methodology? ...
Maintaining Customer Data
All our applications rely on a certain amount of client data i.e. Lookups for comboboxes, users, roles, user-roles... We currently use a spreadsheet to map the data and generate insert scripts that are then imported into SQL server. The has seemed to work for us but it is very difficult to update and maintain when there are a lot of ch...
Suggested Agile SDLC book(s)?
I’m interested in picking up a book or two discussing in detail Agile software development life cycle. Does anybody have any suggestions? ...
Can we create a new variant of Scrum for waterfall projects
It is not easy for traditional large software product organizations working in distributed off-shore environments engaged in Product Development to follow the spirit of Agile in Scrum for the following reasons: Their product development is not iterative. The product engineering teams after several rounds of iterative systems engineeri...
TDD: Where to start the first test
Hello, So I've done unit testing some, and have experience writing tests, but I have not fully embraced TDD as a design tool. My current project is to re-work an existing system that generates serial numbers as part of the companies assembly process. I have an understanding of the current process and workflow due to looking at the exi...
Avoiding cruft when design catches up with implementation
I'm a contractor and am often brought in on projects to be heads down and just implement features for a deadline. Oftentimes though my pace becomes faster than that of the underlying design. So I often wind up having to create functions/methods to perform a task in a preliminary way while awaiting the final design. Case in point, cu...
Which community (language/framework) embraces agile practices the most?
I have been practicing TDD and (some) XP for a few years now and have found that it solves many of the problems I had in my career previous to it's adoption. By removing so many headaches, my love of coding has been rejuvenated. The problem is I have also found it difficult to find .NET (my current stack) projects utilizing these pract...
Good resources for agile development
What are good resources for agile development. Books, blogs, links ... will be great ...
In agile dev, how do you organize user stories?
Hi, How do you go about organizing user stories? What I did was this for a web application: Made a title for a web page like 'index', then listed all the stores the user can do on this page. I continued on for all the pages. Is this the most effective way? ...
Core features required for an Agile project management app
Hi, Can you agile gurus go through at a high level, what features an agile project management application should have? ...
How to maintain a design specification in a Scrum environment?
I really like the concept in the agile manifesto that the focus should be on working software rather then on comprehensive documentation. On the other hand a part of my job is also to manage the product and as such I need a up to date version design document at all times. Some might say that the current version of the working software IS...
Evolutionary Design x Planned Design
Hi guys, I've been using agile development for one year and one of the big differences that I've noted in being agile was when designing the architecture for the system. In later projects we've used incremental methodologies such as RUP, and as you already know we've lost a lot of time creating UML models and later maintaining them. N...
How should I implement User Stories in Bugzilla?
A few individuals at my work have come together to form a group whose goal is to analyze the benefits of implementing some Agile software development / project management principles. As a developer, I see great benefit in User Stories. We're looking to put together an information radiator that can be used for monitoring stages of the c...
What are some good presentations and easy-to-understand material for understanding agile development?
We are bringing in our QA team into our agile development methodology. I would like to see some materials or learning videos geared towards QA and testers. ...
Where should my method go
I have a class that represents a row in a table. I want to add a function that manipulate the data in the row. Where should I add the function? 1) inside the class because it is related to the class 2) outside the class in a separate helper class? In the past I would have always picked number 1. I am starting to think that number 2 ...
Solution organisation for product
We have a base product that has bespoke development for each client that extends and overwrites the functionality of the base. We also have a custom framework that the base product and sits on top of. We use inherited forms to override the base functionality and to date all the forms and classes have been lumped in the same projects ...
How to apply agile to personal projects?
After learning about source control the first thing I did is do a project with svn. After learning about git I used it in a personal project. After learning about UML/Design Patterns/Design Principles/TDD I applied them to a personal project. How can I do the same to agile development? Is agile just for teams and big projects? How do I s...
Iteration planning tool
Hi, I have several problems planning an iteration for a single week. We use XP and TDD in Pairs and it is hard to decide who is pairing with whom. Is there any tool support for planning an iteration that also supports panning of pairs. ...
How to find business related bugs early in software development practices?
I'm working with good group of very sharp developers on one of my client's premises. We are coding correctly around NullPointerException and other exceptions, so we don't have those. But when it comes to business rules we have some mistakes and find issues when already in production. Granted we have very fast paced environment, and depl...