Recent Articles
Article by Allan Kelly |
Mar 13 2012 - 2:12pm In this personal and direct letter to customers, Allan Kelly pulls no punches and explains why IT projects don't always pan out for all of the parties involved. Read More
Article by Zeger van Hese |
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Mar 5 2012 - 2:29am The saying “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” rings true whether you’re staring at a centuries-old painting in a modern museum, listening to a busker’s music reflect off the tiles in a subway station, or testing software. It’s one thing to evaluate quality, but how do we evaluate how we evaluate quality? Read More
Article by Steve Berczuk |
Feb 29 2012 - 1:26pm What makes a team agile? Is it in way it plans projects, or how it engineers its products? In this article, Steve Berczuk explains how agile code and technical practices can help a team stay agile across the product lifecycle. Read More
Article by Markus Gärtner |
Feb 23 2012 - 4:35pm Do you know colleagues who box themselves into the corner regularly? Getting lost is not the problem; coping with having got lost is the problem. Markus Gärtner explains how to notice that you are stuck, how to ask for help, and who you should be asking. Read More
Article by Brian Bozzuto |
Feb 16 2012 - 10:30am Training people and introducing new ideas requires more than just clear factual explanations or theorems. In this two-part series, Brian Bozzuto explores how games, simulations, and other similar exercises play an instrumental role in helping people be comfortable enough with new ideas that they choose to put them into practice. Read More
Article by Matthew Heusser |
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Feb 13 2012 - 6:00am Between cloud computing, crowd-sourced testing, and even the recent claim that "test is dead," what's a boutique tester to do? Matthew Heusser offers his thoughts. Read More
Article by Jonathan Vanian |
Feb 9 2012 - 10:54am A conversation between online editor Jonathan Vanian and agile coach David Hussman, founder of Dev Jam. Read More
Article by Brian Bozzuto |
Feb 8 2012 - 10:17am Training people and introducing new ideas requires more than just clear factual explanations or theorems. In this two-part series, Brian Bozzuto explores how games, simulations, and other similar exercises play an instrumental role in helping people be comfortable enough with new ideas that they choose to put them into practice. Read More
Article by Clinton Keith |
Feb 7 2012 - 12:45pm Many new products being developed require the contribution of artists and other such "creatives", but artists often view the creative process as an organic thing that cannot be analyzed, dissected, or reduced to a set of defined practices without killing it. This article explores barriers such as these to the introduction of agile methods and how these barriers can be overcome. Read More
Article by Lisa Crispin |
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Feb 6 2012 - 6:30am Test automation can turn into a real pain in the neck if a designated team is in charge of it or if the automators work on it as a separate project. In this article, Lisa Crispin seconds Bob Jones’s recent call for whole-team test automation and elaborates on the dangers of relegating test automation to an isolated project rather than integrating it into the overall software development process. Read More
