Kanban for Just in Time Training
Published June 29th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment
It is not uncommon in IT projects that you are required to learn something on the fly or you see an opportunity to introduce a new technique or tool that would bring great benefits to a project. In this presentation, John Stevenson discusses how Kanban can be used to manage a training schedule, for either personal development or for team skills transfer.
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Continuous Integration
Published June 22nd, 2010 Under Open Source Tools, Software Testing | Leave a Comment
At the last Agile Firestarter conference, Erik Stepp presents an introduction to Continuous Integration. Which would you prefer each morning when you get into the office; having to fix compilation error, failed unit tests, etc., or get right down to coding and provide value to the business? Having a Continuous Integration (CI) process setup in your development environment can mean huge gain in productivity. In this session, we explore the benefits of CI and why every development team should have one.
Resources:
* Continuous Integration: The Cornerstone of a Great Shop
* Continuous Integration Feature Matrix
* Continuous Integration Tools Directory
Cucumber-nagios + Flapjack: Rethinking Monitoring for the Cloud
Published June 16th, 2010 Under Open Source Tools, Software Testing | Leave a Comment
Writing checks for your monitoring system is boring. You end up writing the same checks again and again, and it can be difficult to verify behavior instead of availability. Wouldn’t it be useful to have a standard library of checks you could reuse across your infrastructure? it lets you write reusable behavioral tests in human-readable language.Say hello to cucumber-nagios – it lets you write reusable behavioral tests in human-readable language. As cucumber-nagios output the test results in the Nagios plugin format you can run your checks from any monitoring system that understands the format, but as you start adding more machines to your monitoring system you’re going to notice slowdowns and reliability problems. Enter Flapjack, a scalable and distributed monitoring system. It natively talks the Nagios plugin format, and can easily be scaled from 1 server to 1000. Flapjack aims to be simple to set up, configure, and maintain, and easily scales from a single host to multiple. This presentation will be covering how to get up and running with both cucumber-nagios + Flapjack, writing tests for your web apps, and why it’s important to test the behavior (and not just the availability) of your production web apps.
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Migrating from Scrum to Scrumban – an Experience Report from a Kanban Virgin
Published June 10th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment
Last year one of my client teams was looking for a better way to work following some problems while running fairly standard Scrum. One change appeared to be to combine Scrum with kanban – “Scrumban”. So we jointly decided to give it a go. This experience report explains how the team did it. It should help anyone interested in evolving their Scrum and other timeboxed iterative process to an interesting alternative. The talk will cover:
* Why evolve? A summary of how the team was working and the issues they were seeing.
* Practical observations of how using kanban changes timeboxed iterative develop process
* Some of the questions that you will need to address when you change
* Some concrete solutions to those questions Where next? Possible directions for further evolution.
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Talk Release Management With Artifactory
Published June 10th, 2010 Under Open Source Tools, Software Testing | Leave a Comment
In this presentation the Artifactory team demonstrates the benefits of managing your software development life-cycle through continuous integration. Frederic Simon and Yoav Landman show how to automate large-scale multi-module projects using a fully-integrated platform with Artifactory and Hudson. Using Maven, Gradle, or Ivy builds, it is now possible to dynamically automate and manage the pyramidal stacks of Unit, Functional, and Integration Tests. This demo-based session will show you how Artifactory and Hudson work together to make it much easier to promote certified builds to milestone releases, and finally to general availability, while making sure all builds are fully reproducible.
Produced by the Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group
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