Linkopedia September 2009
Published September 15th, 2009 Under Links | Leave a Comment
Excel Spreadsheet: Value Decision Table for Measuring Business Value
Software Developers Should Never Have Dress Codes
Introduction to DDD for the implementation oriented
The Grinder a load testing framework
Tackle an open-source scrum tracking tool
Article: Grails and Continuous Integration: An Essential Combo
Article: Deployment is the Goal
Video: What they Don’t Teach You About Software at School: Be Smart!
Video: Storytelling Techniques
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Scrum Planet Looking for Scrum Blogs
Published September 14th, 2009 Under Methods & Tools, News | Leave a Comment
Scrum Planet is a web site that aggregates for RSS feeds focused on Scrum and agile project management. If you know about a good blog feed that is missing from the current roster, I would be please to add it. Thanks for your cooperation.
State of Agile Development Survey
Published September 11th, 2009 Under News | Leave a Comment
Time is running out to make sure your experiences implementing and scaling agile are part of this year’s survey results. Remember, this is not a vendor survey, it is a survey to gauge the overall state of agile adoption in the software development community.
Please take part in this survey and get the chance to win 1 of 3 participation prizes from Amazon.com totaling $1,250.00 and have the aggregated results emailed directly to you. As always, your individual responses are completely anonymous.
Learn more and take the 2009 survey here.
You can download the 2008 survey results here.
Why Tester Won’t Like Agile
Published September 3rd, 2009 Under Quotes | 3 Comments
Following my thinking about the fact that functional testing was the dividing barrier between specialized developer and tester roles, I found in the book “Agile Testing” by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory an excellent list of fears that QA teams could express against agile adoption:
“Testers cling to the concept of an independent QA team for many reasons, but the main reason is fear, specifically:
* Fear that they will lose their QA identity
* Fear that if they report to a development manager, they will loose support and programmers will get priority
* Fear that they lack the skills to work in an agile team and will lose their jobs
* Fear that when they’re dispersed into development teams they won’t get the support they need
* Fear that they, and their managers, will get lost in the new organizations
We often hear of QA managers asking questions such as “My company is implementing agile development. How does my role fit in?”. This is directly related to the “loss of identity” fears.”
Source: “Agile Testing”, Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory, Addison-Wesley, 2009
TV Agile: a New Agile Videos and Tutorials Directory
Published September 3rd, 2009 Under Methods & Tools | Leave a Comment
TV Agile is a directory of agile software development videos and tutorials, categorizing material on all agile aspects: scrum, TDD, lean, XP, etc. External contribution is encouraged ;o)
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