Debt Metaphor
Ward Cunningham reflects on the history, motivation and common misunderstanding of the “debt metaphor” as motivation for refactoring. [youtube pqeJFYwnkjE]
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great!
Project retrospectives help teams examine what went right and what went wrong on a project. But traditionally, retrospectives (also known as “post-mortems”) are only performed at the end of the project — too late to help. In organizations where teams develop using iterative, incremental methods, Agile retrospectives at the end …
Agile User Experience
A 7-minute presentation by Declan Whelan about how to integrate user experience with agile development processes. [youtube tea_CtOsCKw]
Agile Stand Ups
One of a series of short stop-action videos that explain key agile concepts in plain language. This episode focuses on Agile Stand Ups. [vimeo 2918370 480 362]
London Java Community: Maven
Martijn Verburg and Michael McCarthy guide the users through a whistle stop tour of Maven. Martijn describes Maven as a Java project management (life cycle) tool rather than as a simple build tool. It has a simple XML configuration model known as the Project Object Model to describe the dependencies …
A Place To Put Things
At the Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools (AAFTT) Visioning Workshop, Elisabeth Hendrickson proposes a high level structure to standard where the elements in a functional test go. She discusses how xUnit and FIT provide significant value through the power of organizing elements. [google -781851039597332214]