Agile software development
Linda Rising describes the costs of force fitting Industrial Age – read “plan-driven” – living into our now knowledge-based – “read agile” – world. Although choices at the personal level are best made by individuals, Linda offers specific suggestions for working in short cycles and the proper place for caffeine, …
This video demonstrates an example of agile requirements traceability. We discuss an example user story and show how detailed requirements captured as test tables can be used to build executable specifications and aid the design process. Finally we wrap up by a brief example of how we would track the …
Gospecify is a behavior-driven development (BDD) framework for Go. Rather than focus on testing every nook and cranny of some code, it helps a programmer produce an executable specification of that code’s behavior. Go’s syntax allowed gospecify to be almost as expressive as Ruby’s rpsec; however, a few tricks had …
We’re agile, so we don’t have to estimate and have no deadlines, right? Wrong! This session will consist of an overview of the concept of agile estimation and the notion of re-estimation. We’ll learn about user stories, story points, team velocity, how to apply them all to estimation and iterative …
The Maven team has gone to the ends of the earth to ensure backward compatibility, improve usability, increase performance, allow safe embedding, and pave the way for implement many highly demanded features. This talk will briefly cover the process and tooling changes that have occurred in the Maven project in …
Ian Culling hosted an open space session on Technical & Functional Debt at the AgilePalooza in Boston. This is his video debrief of the session. [youtube knba5gCDv-M]
