Agile software development

We’re happy to announce that we are live with a huge update to scrum’d. We took in all the feedback from our users, and after having used scrum’d ourselves for a number of months, we knew there were some things that needed changing. So, here’s all the goodies in this update. Product Backlog The first thing we did is move the product backlog to it’s own tab. With the product backlog being located on the project planning page, it was too small to work with, especially for larger projects. Also, we made the expand and collapse links show and hide the acceptance criteria. We ... Read Full Story

In this tough environment more and more companies are beginning to explore how "agile, with different flavors can help their companies deliver reliable application quickly and iteratively. The role of testing professionals increasingly important in the application of Agile Projects. Innovations are increasingly driven by the needs of society in general check. But the paper more difficult to change to agile development is the role of Tester. That is because the agile development contradicts plenty of things to plenty of testers have been taught is "best practice".   As the global crisis hit hard, more and more worries about how it will impact in ... Read Full Story

Editorial Reviews Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit Mary Poppendieck Tom Poppendieck Forewords by Jim Highsmithand Ken Schwaber *Adapting agile practices to your development organization *Uncovering and eradicating waste throughout the software development lifecycle *Practical techniques for every development manager, project manager, and technical leaderLean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit Lean software development: applying agile principles to your organization In Lean Software Development, Mary and Tom Poppendieck identify seven fundamental “lean” principles, adapt them for the world of software development, and show how they can serve as the foundation for agile development approaches that work. Along the way, they introduce 22 “thinking tools” that ... Read Full Story

In my previous series posts, I blogged about unfamiliar terminologies and processes that a tester might come across, when switching from waterfall to agile. These covered definitions of the Product Backlog, User Stories, Sizing, Pre-Planning, Planning and the involvement a tester should expect. In this third and final post of the series, I cover all things sprint related such as: Sprints, Scrum stand-ups, Burn-down, Review and Retrospective. Sprints - Fixed periods to develop a deliverable product increment. It is strictly time boxed: it’s more important to fall short than to slip the date. The Sprint includes design, coding, testing, and documentation. Once a Sprint ... Read Full Story

Josh pointed me to a post on CIO.com titled The 10 Key Capabilities of Next Generation Managers . Like all good strawman arguments, it's with a statement of the obvious ...shifting business conditions are changing the role of the project manager and the skills associated with it. "Organizations are striving to achieve faster [software] delivery without diminishing quality or increasing cost," she writes. As a result, she observes, they're moving from traditional software development methodologies to more Agile ones. Really why agile? Getting faster, without diminishing quality and increasing cost is certainly desirable. By why does agile provide this? Is there evidence that agile ... Read Full Story