PUBLIC MARKS from martinig

This article discuss the different roles in Scrum projects and how you can relate them to traditional project management roles.

This set of questions was created to help corporate managers select Agile-experienced consultants and candidate employees for project work.

Migrating to Agile is more than changing your process. It also requires a change in culture. For most companies changing culture is the most difficult part. I believe this is true for several reasons. These issues should be addressed in two ways. First, you want to address the culture needs of each group head on. We will lay out a game plan for obtaining support from line management, the team, the individual and executive management.

The increasing popularity of agile development methods is putting new demands on the traditional CM discipline. A working CM environment is essential for the rapid nature of agile development methods, but the CM process and the CM role has to be adapted to the present evolution of software development methods as well as automated tools. This article discusses lean principles and agile values within a CM scope and also introduces a method to classify the CM discipline in relation to development method and level of tool automation.

A practical experience report on how to select tools to test a java Web site

An introduction to a process mixing the UML use case approach and Test-Driven Development.

Directory of tools related to software development that covers all programming activities: programming (java, .net, php, c++, etc.), testing, configuration management, databases, project management, modeling, etc.

This article reports a concrete experience of incorporating customer input in a Test-Driven Development approach

A critical look at the pair programming practice

Selected software development news: .NET, Java, PHP, C, XML, databases, open source, programming, web services, agile software development, etc.

This article describes the refactoring techniques used to improve existing java code.

This article describes how to use techniques from extreme programming for teams that have not implemented XP

This article presents the basic concepts used by the popular Ruby on Rails web development framework

A recent poll asked to compare the quality of open source and commercial software development tools. And the winner is... not obvious ;o)

This article describes the approach used by British Telecom to move towards an Agile software development process

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