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Agile Boot Camp now with a Part 1/2 (Sign up now)

Jeffrey Palermo, January 2, 2009

Our Agile Boot Camp developer training series has been so successful that we are adding a "Part 1".  Up until now we did not have an offering for developers without familiarity with the to...

How my team does agile

Tom Hollanders blog, December 16, 2008

As you know, Im a big fan of agile software development. But what exactly does agile mean? If you ask a room full of software engineers that question, youre sure to get as many different answers as th...

Agile 2009 unrest

Corporate Coder, December 14, 2008

If you haven't noticed, David Anderson has been making a case for Agile 2009 to have a breaking acts type of stage in the 2009 version, as they had in Agile 2008.  The case David ma...

Typemock is looking for agile developers

ISerializable, November 23, 2008

It's that time again. We're Hiring. Typemock Is looking for a developer with good .NET skills, and a passion for agile development. You don't have to know TDD, but it's a plus. Knowing some C++ is...

At the Italian Agile day in Bologna

Code Climber, November 20, 2008

Tomorrow Ill be at the Italian Agile Day in Bologna: its going to be my first time at an Agile conference and Im pretty excited about that. Two members of the UGIALT.NET user group, Emanuele Del Bono...

Stories Too Big Vertical Slices

Steven Smith, November 14, 2008

I have a client who lists as one of the key challenges with implementing agile practices with their teams as managing to define user stories that are valuable but not too big.  This is actually a...

OutSystems Releases New Agile Application

FTPOnline ASP.NET Channel, November 7, 2008

OutSystems's All-In-One Agile Suite promises to be a time-saver for both IT developers trying to incorporate changes into customer applications, and customers who want to get the process right but do ...

Visual Studio Talk Show #85 is now online (French)

Guy Barrettes WebLog, November 2, 2008

http://www.visualstudiotalkshow.comBernard Fedotoff: PDC 2008: Les nouveauts annonces au Microsoft Professional Developer Conference En direct de Los Angeles, dans le cadre de la confrence PDC 2...

Another Agile Boot Camp over

Jeffrey Palermo, October 7, 2008

This past week, I had a great class for my Agile Boot Camp developer training.  I promised the folks I'd blog about some learning resources I find very valuable, so here they are. First, I have ...

Another Agile Boot Camp over

Jeffrey Palermo, October 7, 2008

This past week, I had a great class for my Agile Boot Camp developer training.  I promised the folks I'd blog about some learning resources I find very valuable, so here they are. First, I have ...

Agile Development Part 2

The Code Project Latest Articles, October 6, 2008

Agile Development Part 2...

Agile Testing tools List

ISerializable, October 3, 2008

Working on an appendix for my book, with a list of tools and frameworks you should care about. Tell me if I missed anything: Mock Frameworks o Moq o Rhino Mocks o Typemock Isolator o NM...

Agile Development FAQ Part 1

The Code Project Latest Articles, October 3, 2008

Agile Development FAQ Part 1...

My Presentation Zen mentor has done it again

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., September 28, 2008

Claudio Perrone is a developer who is passionate about Agile practices. We when we were both presenters at the Developer Summit in Stockholm this past spring. We had a lot of chats about presentation...

Unit Testing decoupled from Design == Adoption

ISerializable, September 26, 2008

In my previous post I started talking in more coherent words about feelings Ive had lurking in the past year. This post is an expansion of that, after having some great twitter conversations in the pa...

Next Agile Boot Camp is October 1-3 in Austin, TX - register now

Jeffrey Palermo, September 23, 2008

I'm teaching the next Agile Boot Camp on October 1, 2, and 3 in Austin, TX.  Register now to attend.  This advanced agile curriculum will cover everything involved in developing software in...

Next Agile Boot Camp is October 1-3 in Austin, TX - register now

Jeffrey Palermo, September 23, 2008

I'm teaching the next Agile Boot Camp on October 1, 2, and 3 in Austin, TX.  Register now to attend.  This advanced agile curriculum will cover everything involved in developing software in...

Did somebody say Agile PreCon at PDC?

PDC05: Developer Powered, September 16, 2008

When Dilbert talks about being "Agile," you know it has become main stream. This is also evident from the increased adoption of agile techniques and practices in the software development industry. M...

Being agile about SOA

Patrik Löwendahls shout, September 14, 2008

SOA and Agile are two approaches that have a hard time to live together. Martin Fowler just wrote about it: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/EvolutionarySOA.html, Jim Webber talked about it on Developer ...

dotNetRegister: Requirements

the telerik blogs, August 26, 2008

Before we can begin any serious coding of the recently introduced "dotNetRegister" reference app, we need to define some some requirements. As with any good agile development effort, I want...

Cooper's Keynote at Agile 2008

+dotNetTemplar+, August 16, 2008

I just ran across Alan Cooper's keynote at Agile 2008. The gist is that he's making the case for integrating interaction design into Agile development, something that is near and dear to me, as well....

Vote for your SXSW '09 sessions now

Jeffrey Palermo, August 8, 2008

South by Southwest (SXSW) is set for March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, TX.  From the website: " The SXSW INTERACTIVE FESTIVAL celebrates the creativity and passion behind the coolest new media ...

Vote for your SXSW '09 sessions now

Jeffrey Palermo, August 8, 2008

South by Southwest (SXSW) is set for March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, TX.  From the website: " The SXSW INTERACTIVE FESTIVAL celebrates the creativity and passion behind the coolest new media ...

Looking to hire a software tester immediately

Jeffrey Palermo, August 5, 2008

I am hiring for the following position.  This person will report directly to me and work on a team that I am coaching.  If interested, you are applying to be on an extreme programming team....

Looking to hire a software tester immediately

Jeffrey Palermo, August 5, 2008

I am hiring for the following position.  This person will report directly to me and work on a team that I am coaching.  If interested, you are applying to be on an extreme programming team....

Funding projects incrementally

Cirrus Minor, August 3, 2008

Johanna writes about how you should fund project in an incremental manner especially when it comes to the most risky ones:incrementally, in some sort of a timebox. (Gotcha!) But heres why it make s...

A must-read blog

Jeffrey Palermo, August 1, 2008

As I've posted earlier, Kevin Hurwitz has started blogging.  Kevin lives in Austin and is active in the local developer community (AgileAustin, Austin .Net User Group, AgileATX). He has just post...

A must-read blog

Jeffrey Palermo, August 1, 2008

As I've posted earlier, Kevin Hurwitz has started blogging.  Kevin lives in Austin and is active in the local developer community (AgileAustin, Austin .Net User Group, AgileATX). He has just post...

Over Specification in Tests

ISerializable, July 12, 2008

I've gotten the chance to visit and consult various companies and I see this all the time: Over specification in tests, especially when doing mocks and stubs. One main reason for that is that people ...

July Agile Boot Camp filling up quick - reserve your spot now

Jeffrey Palermo, July 9, 2008

On July 23, 24, and 25, I will be teaching another Agile Boot Camp in Austin, TX.  The Agile Boot Camp is software engineering training for .Net developers.  Unlike most training courses a...

July Agile Boot Camp filling up quick - reserve your spot now

Jeffrey Palermo, July 9, 2008

On July 23, 24, and 25, I will be teaching another Agile Boot Camp in Austin, TX.  The Agile Boot Camp is software engineering training for .Net developers.  Unlike most training courses a...

Taking on dependencies

Eric Gunnersons C# Compendium, July 8, 2008

A recent discussion on how to deal with dependencies when you're an agile team got me thinking... Whether you are doing agile or waterfall (and whether the team you are dependent on is doing agile or ...

Over-testable systems, and mocks as bad test smells

ISerializable, July 3, 2008

This is an interesting problem I've been running into at work. Sometimes we would try to write a test against the system or a component and we would literally have too many choices of how to write it ...

ALT.NET Canada coming soon!

Visual ActiveKent Sharkey .NET SE 3.11 : ASP.NET, July 1, 2008

Are you test-driven? Agile? Are you up on all the latest three letter acronyms (IoC, BDD, DRY)? Or are you just a curious sort who wants to know more about developing using these technologies? If so, ...

Software Books Ordered

Steven Smith, June 23, 2008

I just ordered some more books, on recommendations from a few of my peers.  I'll post my thoughts on them once they've arrived and I've had a chance to read them. The Art of Agile Development...

In Search Of Best Methodology

AspNetResources.com articles, news and updates, June 20, 2008

There was a time when Agile nazis zealots used to make me feel bad. I’d feel guilty about not following The Agile by the book. We did not do stickies with user stories, had no burn–down ch...

Requirements Tracability in Mingle

Cirrus Minor, June 2, 2008

While I am on the subject of Project management, One nice feature of Mingle (I am not sure if it is new in v.2 or it was there in v1) is requirements traceability. Requirements traceability is a re...

Enterprise Library 4 is now released

Guy Barrettes WebLog, May 19, 2008

Microsoft as released Enterprise Library 4.0. You can download it here: http://www.codeplex.com/entlib You can read about it here:http://blogs.msdn.com/agile/archive/2008/05/16/enterprise-library-4-0...

Agile Rejection Letter

ISerializable, May 12, 2008

"Dear Roy, Thank you for your submission to the Developer Jam stage, entitled "Advanced Unit Testing Patterns, Tips and Tricks with examples in .NET".  We received a number of gr...

Heard Mike Cohn speak at AgileAustin user group

Jeffrey Palermo, May 8, 2008

Today I had the pleasure of hearing Mike Cohn speak at an AgileAustin meeting. Below are some of my raw notes. I have not edited them. Just a brain dump of some of the presentation. - agile is all a...

Understanding Agile Software Development...

DotNetJohn.Com, May 8, 2008

In this article Joydip provides a brief overview of Agile Software Development and its methods....

Heard Mike Cohn speak at AgileAustin user group

Jeffrey Palermo, May 8, 2008

Today I had the pleasure of hearing Mike Cohn speak at an AgileAustin meeting. Below are some of my raw notes. I have not edited them. Just a brain dump of some of the presentation. - agile is all a...

Individual Empowerment and agile...

Eric Gunnersons C# Compendium, April 28, 2008

(Interestingly, I find myself writing more about agile and team stuff now that I'm not on a development team....)   This is in response to a question about how you balance individual em...

Kanban Process Template for TFS

Corporate Coder, April 22, 2008

I want to announce that I have posted an alpha version of the Kanban Process Template for TFS on codeplex.  The template as currently has a set of Areas and Iterations to help get started wi...

Where you can find me this spring

Jeffrey Palermo, April 11, 2008

MVP Summit 2008:  Tomorrow I pray to God that American Airlines doesn't cancel my direct flight from Austin to Seattle for the 2008 MVP Summit where I will host another Party with Palermo.&nb...

Agile Coaching: The daily stand-up meeting

Jeffrey Palermo, March 28, 2008

I'm starting a new blog series based on my experiences doing agile coaching at clients.  Along with agile projects in .Net, my company also offers agile coaching and training.  Right now...

Schemaless C#-XML data binding with VTD-XML

The Code Project Latest Articles, March 24, 2008

Agile, efficient XML data binding without schema...

More on the Web Service Factory 2008

Corporate Coder, March 17, 2008

Looking at the web service factory more I see some possible value.  I had problems installing the version with source,  but it turns out that it was my directory structure.  I init...

Web Service Factory for VS 2008

Corporate Coder, March 10, 2008

Just released earlier in February, is the Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition for 2008.  This new software factory utilizes the Guidance Automation toolkit in the source code.  An...

What is a good example of unit test over specification?

ISerializable, March 1, 2008

I'm working on chapter 8 of my upcoming book and I need to come up with a good example of over specification in unit tests, that leads to an unmaintainable test in the long run (fragile test). I have ...

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