Agile Culture, Scrum, User Experience and Software Architecture in the Winter 2011 issue of Methods & Tools
Published December 21st, 2011 Under Methods & Tools | Leave a Comment
Methods & Tools – the free magazine for software developers, testers and project managers – has just published its Winter 2011 issue with the following articles that focuses mainly on agile project management, software architecture and user experience. In addition, four open source software development tools are presented, two for software testing and two for project management. Winter 2011 issue content:
* How to Make Your Culture Work with Agile, Kanban & Software Craftsmanship
* How Software Architecture Learns
* Understanding of Burndown Chart
* The Psychology of UX – Part 2
* Cucumber: Behavior Driven Development in Ruby
* Sureassert Exemplars: Java Unit Testing Without Unit Tests
* ChiliProject: Modular Open Source Web-based Project Management
* Scrum-it: Virtual Open Source Scrum Board Application
70 pages of software development knowledge that you can download from http://www.methodsandtools.com/mt/download.php?winter11
Lean Integration
Published November 7th, 2011 Under Books | Leave a Comment
The book is divided in three parts. The first part provides an overview of Lean integration. The second part introduces the seven Lean integration principles and the last part discusses lean integration competency areas. This book provides valuable content to apply the lean principles to the software integration process with a lot of case studies, but if you are interested in the Lean aspect of software development, I would rather recommend the book “Leading Lean Software Development – Results are not the Point” by Mary and Tom Poppendieck.
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Reference: “Lean Integration”, John G. Schmid & David Lyle, Addison-Wesley, 408 pages, IBSN 978-0-321-71231-8
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Observations on Software Architecture
Published October 31st, 2011 Under Quotes | Leave a Comment
I am currently reading the book “Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development” by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde. This book is full of very interesting material that covers the full spectrum of the software development domain and is the “sequel” of “Scaling Lean & Agile Development – Thinking and Organisational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum” published in 2009. Software architecture and design is one of the topics discussed in the books and I want to share with you some of the authors’ thoughts, starting with five principles that they propose on software architecture and design: Read more
Lean-Agile Acceptance Test-Driven Development
Published May 23rd, 2011 Under Books | Leave a Comment
This book defines acceptance tests not as the traditional user acceptance tests performed after implementation, but as the tests created by the customer in collaboration with the developer and the tester prior to implementation. Ken Pugh proposes mainly an approach where all project stakeholders will collaborate to create tests that validate business requirements. I will recommend this book to all project members that want to improve their communication with end users and achieve a better understanding of requirements.
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Reference: ” Managing Software Debt – Building for Inevitable Change “, of Chris Sterling, Addison-Wesley, 228 pages, ISBN 978-0-321-55413-0
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September Software Development Conferences
Published August 24th, 2010 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment
Here is a list of software development related conferences and events that will take place in September and that have media partnerships with Methods & Tools:
* Mobile Application Stores, September 7 2010, Zurich, Switerland
* iqnite 2010 Schweiz, September 21 2010, Zurich, Switzerland
* Lean & Kanban 2010 Europe, September 23-24 2010, Antwerp, Belgium
* Software Testing Analysis & Review Conference, September 26—October 1 2010, San Diego, USA
* iPhone/iPad DevCon, September 27-29 2010, San Diego, USA
* iqnite Nordic, September 29-30 2010, Stockholm, Sweden
* iqnite United Kingdom, October 4 2010, London, UK
* Agile Eastern Europe, October 8-9, Kyiv, Ukraine
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