Software maintenance is an important part of the software development activity, but it is also the less discussed. As an example of its relative importance, you could just compare the space occupied by “software maintenance” and “test driven development” in Wikipedia (and I have nothing against TDD). Furthermore, software maintenance …
In this issue you will find an article on how to measure the progress of your agile projects, a framework for the transition to lean configuration management, practical advice on how to implement retrospectives at the end of you software development projects and a presentation of Microsoft’s Software Factories concept. …
In the recent years, the agile development approaches have been gaining more and more interest and acceptance in software development organisations. This has been a rapid adoption for ideas that were formalised in 2001 with the signature of the Agile Manifesto by a group of software development thinkers. The basic value …
In this issue you will find a “from the trenches” report on how to select a test tool for a Web application, an article of Tom Gilb on how quantification could improve agile approaches, an application of test driven development in the embedded software development world and .an article on …
If you follow the evolution of software development on Internet, you may have the impression that every new development is Web based and that the main areas of concern are whether you should develop new application with Ruby on Rail or if you should choose Flash rather than Ajax for …
I am currently preparing the Autumn and Winter issues and I have recently had the chance to get the cooperation of some agile practitioners: Rachel Davies that has participated to the creation of the Paircoaching.net association of agile consultants will provide an article on agile retrospectives. I am very happy to collaborate again …
