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Microsoft doesn't get TDD
Via Sam .
Posted: Nov 18 2005, 09:04 AM by mdavey | with no comments
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Sam's War Room
Sam's been blogging about his pure agile team recently . This weekend he posts about his War Room .
Posted: Nov 14 2005, 08:26 AM by mdavey | with 2 comment(s)
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Another Sprint, Another Release - we're on the Grid
Yesterday saw the end of another sprint , and a milestone for the current project. We finally managed to get the Informix drivers installed on the UAT grid, followed by a release of the pricing service. This was a major step forwards - it feels like we...
Posted: Nov 12 2005, 07:03 AM by mdavey | with 1 comment(s)
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Rally finally starts blogging agile
Here
Posted: Nov 10 2005, 11:06 AM by mdavey | with 1 comment(s)
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Agile, no its JFDI
A colleague has invented JFDI a new process/framework (call it what you will). I think he should patent the idea, start marketing the concept, and start selling training courses to the investment banks. Good luck to him, I think he onto a winner of an...
Posted: Oct 26 2005, 09:05 AM by mdavey | with 7 comment(s)
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Finetix and Ken Schwaber host Breakfast Scrum Seminar, Nov 30 NYC
Extract from an internal email: "We are holding a Breakfast Seminar on Nov 30, together with Ken Schwaber . This 2-hour session will be for clients and prospects to learn about agile development, what it is, how we do it, and some project-specific presentations...
Posted: Oct 21 2005, 11:14 PM by mdavey | with no comments
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ScrumMaster course - Day 2
Today the main points I came away with were: Fixed Price Fixed Contract Scrum is possible - Ken has a slide on this, with possible contract clauses. When replying to an Request For Proposal (RFP) consider prioritizing the functionality documented by the...
Posted: Oct 21 2005, 09:46 PM by mdavey | with no comments
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ScrumMaster course - Day 1
Today was the first day of the ScrumMaster course taught by Ken Schwaber. For anyone looking to get into Scrum, I recommend this course. Classic comments from Ken on the first day were: Since CMM went commercial, it "a pile of crap" "hell in a handbag...
Posted: Oct 20 2005, 09:00 PM by mdavey | with 2 comment(s)
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Project 2003 Tool: Scrum Solution Starter
Here
Posted: Oct 10 2005, 06:11 PM by mdavey | with 1 comment(s)
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ScrumWorks
1.4 RC appears to be available.
Posted: Sep 30 2005, 09:57 PM by mdavey | with 1 comment(s)
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