Join Tejus Datta as he speaks about how businesses can get real value through Agile. Some of the key takeaways from this talk are as follows. * 'Rational' Prioritization: How do you get the key stakeholder to prioritize the iteration with the right effort towards stories, CR, tech debt/tasks and bu...

Do you have Automation in your Agile Team? What does Automation mean in an Agile environment? What is absolutely necessary? Read here ...

This article shows you how easy it is to use a build framework such as MSBuild or TeamCity to build .NET software. He also demonstrates how to add Continuous Integration (CI) with .NET applications to an Agile ALM CI ecosystem that can also integrate other artifact types, such as Java.

Dev Magic Fake is a faking framework and open source project that provides the ability to focus on how to complete, verify and test the application behaviors and response without focus on coding or developing the underline layers until the application features finished, tested and approved

I was recently pointed to an InfoQ article titled Do Story Points Relate to Complexity or Time? It mentions that some teams estimate by a matter of complexity versus how long in effort something will take. Mike Cohn, who wrote the original post It’s Effort, Not Complexity, makes some very good point...

A new version of the Agile Platform was just released. The Agile Platform is used by IT teams to integrate, develop, deploy, manage and change Java or .NET web applications and business processes using agile methodologies.

Agile development practices greatly improve quality and productivity. There are "agile" development practices that can be applied to any project independently of the project methodology. In this post I talk about a recent project and some of the development practices that worked really w...

The Myth that 100% test coverage means code is completely bug-free has been busted thoroughly. So much in fact, that it is almost risqué to add complete test coverage to your agenda. But is 100% test coverage really 100% useless, or are there some advantages worth striving for still? This artic...

A very quick but helpful description of the Kanban agile software development process.

About three weeks ago, I asked my readers and some people in the Norwegian developer community about what books they have in their bookshelf. The response was good, and I ended up with many good book recommendations. Today I placed a new order on Amazon, and spent 200$ to upgrade my bookshelf. If...

I've written quite a bit about various aspects of estimating in agile software development. I think it's about time I joined up the dots...

Article talks about minimum criteria required to call a process Agile. It also review all principles behind the Agile Software Development manifesto.

It's odd to talk about the decline and fall of the agile movement, especially now that it's so popular, but I actually think the agile movement has been in decline for several years now.

Are you holding back on adopting Agile practices? Listen in as Sara Ford, Codeplex Program Manager, explains first hand the benefits of working in an Agile team and why she wouldn't go back to the traditional Microsoft methodology.