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Visual Studio setup problem - 'A problem has been encountered while lo
This is an older post, but I found it necessary when running XP Mode on my Win 7 machine with a VSTS 2008 trial version installed. No matter what I tried, I couldn't get it to uninstall.
This post solved my problem!
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Agile development practices within a traditional sdlc
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...
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When does design happen in Agile?
Someone at work, new to agile approaches, asked me about when agile projects do design. I thought I would share my answer in case others were still wondering, and to try and explain where experience may have lead to us activities that are not textbook...
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"Click to Activate" in IE going away!
Update for IE to be included in Vista SP1, XP SP3 and standalone update available starting in December.
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Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development
Recently I gave two days worth of talks introducing an organization to agile management and development with Scrum and XP practices. I've made available the presentations and exercises for the betterment of mankind...or at least to get a few more people familiar with agile development. Included is...
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If yer code ain't tested, the waterfallists win.
Move over Fox News, Guantanamo and Ashcroft aren't just for the news scroll anymore.
.NET is great, but there's a lot of really neat innovation going on in the Java-sphere even now. Two tools that take your TDD to a whole new level are on the horizon. Any bets on how long before they're re-impl...
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Will Pair Programming Really Improve Your Project?
This article takes a critical look at the pair programming practice of the agile extreme programming approach.
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Spiking in eXtreme .NET
Learn the art of research and experimentation known in Extreme Programming (XP) as spiking. Excerpt: Experimentation is a fundamental part of research. To understand and validate how something works, we experiment with it. Spiking is the XP term given to research and experimentation. Spiking provide...
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3 Agile discussion groups
A list of my favourite discussion groups relating to Agile software development.
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Agile Project Goes into Ship Mode
Large Enterprise platform that has used Extreme Programming techniques for 14 months goes into Ship Mode. The author talks about steps neccessary to ship and being an Agile Architect.