Introduction to scrumblr

Published October 10th, 2011 Under Scrum | Leave a Comment

Scrumblr is an open source scrum tool that allow to manage an agile sprint board with real-time collaboration support. It is built using node.js, websockets (using socket.io), CSS3 and jquery. If features an interesting user interface that tries to simulate a physical board.

Effective Specifications and Tests for Agile Projects

Published October 3rd, 2011 Under Project Management, Software Testing | Leave a Comment

This video presents a set of process patterns that facilitate change in software products to ensure that the right product is delivered efficiently with short iterations. Agile projects require that the specifications and testing processes fit into short iterations, which is a challenge for business analysts and developers when they start using an Agile approach.

Watch this video from http://ndc2011.macsimum.no/mp4/Day2%20Thursday/Track5%200900-1000.mp4

Agile Style Scalability

Published September 29th, 2011 Under Coding | Leave a Comment

This video presents Pivotal Labs development process: how they go from minimum viable product to high traffic site, where they focus and when. In particular, the talk will provide hands-on pointers on how to make your Ruby on Rails application run fast and scale. Not just theory, but specific tools and concrete steps.

Organizers: The San Francisco Ruby on Rails Group
Video Source: http://marakana.com/forums/ruby/ruby_on_rails/411.html

Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson Interview

Published September 21st, 2011 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson are interviewed by Ward Cunningham. They discuss incremental development and especially recognizing and avoiding technical debt.

Video source: http://interview.c2.com/

Architect Role in Scrum

Published September 12th, 2011 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

This short video summarize a clinic held at the Scrum Gathering that took place in Amsterdam, November 2010 and where the question was “What is the role of Architects in Scrum?”.

Agile Team Leadership

Published September 8th, 2011 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

This video discusses three maturity stages of a team and adjusting leadership accordingly, along with techniques meant to bring craftsmanship and maturity in a software development team.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Team-Leadership-in-the-Age-of-Internet

Scrum Stand-up Worst Practices

Published September 5th, 2011 Under Scrum | 2 Comments

During the Agile Cambridge 2010 conference, a team of volunteers put together this video to highlight the less desirable behaviors that can happen sometimes during a daily Scrum Stand-up meeting.

Measuring Technical Debt with Load Testing

Published August 29th, 2011 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Every development project has technical debt that accumulates over time. This debt must typically be repaid – with interest – at some point in the development lifecycle. QA testers can contribute considerable value to the organization by using load testing tools to better quantify the effect of technical debt on users. Knowing how technical debt might affect users can help management decide if, or even when, debt should be addressed.

Q&A of this webinar on The Seapine blog

Successful Agile Transition

Published August 25th, 2011 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

This video tells the successful story of a team’s transition to Agile in the middle of a major product release, mentioning the difficulties encountered and how they tackled them.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Letters-From-The-Edge-Of-An-Agile-Transition

Refactoring Erlang with Wrangler

Published August 23rd, 2011 Under Coding | Leave a Comment

Wrangler is an interactive refactoring tool for Erlang. This video shows how to perform the basic refactoring activity: how to rename functions, variables and modules and also how to more functions from one module to another.


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