Written by “A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes” – Helmut Jan via Lean Startups: Thinking in reverse, yet leaning forward | Agile Zone.
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8 Principles of Continuous Delivery
Dave Farley co-authored “Continuous Delivery”, an excellent book in the Martin Fowler signature series, which goes into great detail about the evolution of Continuous Integration, and how to achieve continuous delivery (or continuous deployment) using “build pipelines”. via 8 Principles of Continuous Delivery | Javalobby.
READ MORE »Martin Fowler on Software Patents
The short form of my post is that while patents (even software patents) are a good idea in principle, in practice they have turned into an unmitigated disaster and would be better scrapped. Cannot disagree… Thanks, Martin. via Martin Fowler on Software Patents | Agile Zone.
READ MORE »Learning the Agile Vocabulary
If you’re getting started with Agile, you’ve probably heard a lot of terms and may not know what they all mean. This post will define the key Agile terms and have you speaking like an Agilista in no time. via Learning the Agile Vocabulary | Agile Zone.
READ MORE »Agile for dummies – Continuous Feedback with Customer Demos | Agile Zone
Frequent demos for immediate feedback are extremely imporant and come to fill the gap between the development team (what is implemented) and end users (what they really want from the system).The fact that from the early stages of the project, the customer participate at regular intervals in such meetings, ensure that critical requirement [...]
READ MORE »Continuous Integration in .NET
My last review on DZone. At the end, I can only confirm the great value of this work, not only for the variety of tools discussed, but mainly for the super fast effectiveness of setup procedures, that give us the opportunity to make things work during the reading. If you wanna do CI in .NET, [...]
READ MORE »Retrospectives – common or not, a small survey
I’m still experimenting with Dialogue Sheets for Retrospectives (the download page, and my earlier blog entry) and so are other people. Of the feedback I’ve had so far it has been overwhelmingly positive. Perhaps people who aren’t positive don’t bother trying them. via Retrospectives – common or not, a small survey | Agile Zone.
READ MORE »TDD for unbelievers
Incipit: “I have to admit, I was not-so-good with TDD (Test-driven development). I just didn’t see how it can help me to deliver a better software. Products and solutions I developed were pretty much rock solid and it felt good to see them running for years. What else did I need? But it was time [...]
READ MORE »Continuous Delivery: Patterns and Antipatterns in the Software Lifecycle
Another great DZone RefCardz By Paul M. Duvall Form the paper: With Continuous Delivery (CD), teams continuously deliver new versions of software to production by decreasing the cycle time between an idea and usable software through the automation of the entire delivery system: build, deployment, test, and release. CD is enabled through the Deployment Pipeline, [...]
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