Recently, we got a new developer at NetDoktor. It's strange but exciting that I finally have a colleague to work with again, a fellow developer to bounce ideas off of, a buddy for pair programming and a sparring partner for test driven development. I'm pretty psyched. Though long overdue (we've been searching since April), the … Continue reading Would you like fries with that?
Category: Kanban & Agile
Continuous Improvement and the busyness trap
You want to be agile. You want to realize value for your customers as fast as possible. And you want to get better every time you do something. Great! But beware! You might get caught in the busyness trap. Your website is out there running for some time. You're quite happy with it, but, of … Continue reading Continuous Improvement and the busyness trap
Agile Project Management Tools Evolving: Kanban FTW
It's been a while since we were using Thoughtworks Mingle as our agile project management tool. We liked their Kanban style Card Walls View a lot. Nevertheless, we switched to PivotalTracker because of its superior support of prioritizing stories in a backlog and automated iteration planning. Unfortunately, PivotalTracker does not offer any Kanban style card … Continue reading Agile Project Management Tools Evolving: Kanban FTW
Kanban for Lean Project Management with agilezen.com
Zen is a brand new Kanban tool for lean project management. In contrast to PivotalTracker, which concentrates on automating iteration management for SCRUM like projects, Zen's main view is a story board. The funny thing is, that I preferred the stroy board view in Mingle over the list view provided by PivotalTracker before I started … Continue reading Kanban for Lean Project Management with agilezen.com
Behavior Driven Ops, Kanban vs. Scrum and a new upcoming Monitoring and Trending Tool
Testing Dash Metrics with Cucumber (Bradley Taylor) - A short article showing off a Cucumber feature for monitoring with Nagios. Kanban vs. Scrum (Henrik Kniberg) - A great, 26 page long PDF about the similarities and differences between Scrum and Kanban. Absolutely worth reading! Reconnoiter (Theo Schlossnagle) - Theo and his OmniTI Labs are working … Continue reading Behavior Driven Ops, Kanban vs. Scrum and a new upcoming Monitoring and Trending Tool
Too Busy to Blog
I've been busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest the past few weeks. And because of this I haven't been keeping up with my weekly posts. But yesterday, after getting through the guilt trip, I realized that I was missing more than just blogging. I was missing my weekly retrospectives and thereby losing … Continue reading Too Busy to Blog
Agile on steroids
Agile software development is a great thing. It makes people deliver real value faster. Based on the agile manifesto there are a lot of processes and frameworks available (XP, SCRUM or Lean Software Development anyone?), which try to enable teams to develop better and more relevant software. So far, so good. In our company, we're … Continue reading Agile on steroids
Test First in Operations at The Build Doctor
Read about my ideas for Test First in Operations at The Build Doctor. Julian Simpson (@simpsonjulian) is "The Build Doctor", or as he states it: Blogger, professional build manager, systems administrator, caffiene addict, dad. We already had the pleasure to publish his great post Partitions and Warfare. Check out Julians posts there. It's worth it!
Four Short Links: 30 April 2009
Why do programmers code, priorities, how to assess a programmers competency and continuos integration cage fight - some food for thought... Programmers Don't Like to Code (Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch) - A very insightful article about why programmers keep re-writing code: To understand, and, after understanding, to simplify. Mud Rooms, Red Letters, and Real Priorities (Merlin … Continue reading Four Short Links: 30 April 2009
Agile Essentials – Speed instead of chaos
Yesterday I gave a talk about the "why" of agile software development based on ideas and concepts of lean manufacturing. It shows some tools to speed up development by reducing waste and by working in small batches. Check it out and share it if you like it. Agile Essentialshttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=agileessentialsforslideshare-090402145018-phpapp02&rel=0&stripped_title=agile-essentials View more presentations from webops.
