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The Impact of Agile Software Development on Testing
A series of 30 second interviews from STARWEST 2008, discussing the effect that Agile Software Development has on testing and the testing process.
3Sep2009 | Tara L Hamilton-Whitaker | 1 comment | Continued
Agile is so last year – Introducing the Waterfall Manifesto…!
I just stumbled upon a site that really made me laugh – the Waterfall Manifesto.
3Sep2009 | Tara L Hamilton-Whitaker | 1 comment | Continued
Beyond Test Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development
A great Google Tech Talk talk by Dave Astels about the next step after Test Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development (in Ruby).
2Sep2009 | Tara L Hamilton-Whitaker | 3 comments | Continued
You know you’re not using Scrum when… (5 Questions from Nokia)
Five questions asked by Nokia to determine whether or not their teams were following the guidelines of Scrum…
1Sep2009 | Tara L Hamilton-Whitaker | 1 comment | Continued
You know you’re not doing Iterative Development when…(5 Questions from Nokia)
Five questions asked by Nokia to determine whether or not their teams were ‘doing Iterative Development’.
1Sep2009 | Tara L Hamilton-Whitaker | 1 comment | Continued
Measuring Programmer Productivity – A scientific study
An interesting Google Tech Talk by Vikram Aggarwal and Viral Shah. In this talk, Vikram and Viral suggest ways to measure Programmer Productivity and share the results of various scientific studies conducted in this area.
1Sep2009 | Tara L Hamilton-Whitaker | 2 comments | Continued
Scaling Scrum & Distributed Teams – Scrum Tuning: Lessons Learned at Google
A fantastic Google Tech Talk by Jeff Sutherland, one of the founders of Scrum, where he introduces Scrum, Agile and offers a lot of insight and guidance on how to scale Scrum e.g. the Meta Scrum.
31Aug2009 | Tara L Hamilton-Whitaker | 2 comments | Continued
Introduction to Agile – “Let’s Talk Agile” Slideshow
A very succint and well assembled Introduction to Agile by Denise Caron.
This slideshow will be appreciated by those new to Agile and those responsible for ‘selling Agile’ alike.
31Aug2009 | Tara L Hamilton-Whitaker | 0 comments | Continued
How to Plan Software Development Projects with Distributed Teams
In this Google Tech Talk, Hubert Smits provides some very useful insight on how to plan Software Development projects with Distributed Agile Teams.
28Aug2009 | Tara L Hamilton-Whitaker | 0 comments | Continued
Sysomos ‘Inside Twitter’ Report 2009 – Twitter User Demographics and Usage Trends
This is a very interesting video summary of The 2009 Sysomos ‘Inside Twitter’ report on Social Media User Demographics and Usage Trends by Mel Aclaro (www.businesscasualblog.com).
28Aug2009 | Tara L Hamilton-Whitaker | 0 comments | Continued