Total Cost of Ownership and Return on Investment

Published August 23rd, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

In this session of the Jazoon conference last June in Zurich, Ken Schwaber talked about the importance of having a good definition of the concept of  “done” and the lack of technical practices in Scrum projects that lead to technical debt. You can read my own review of this presentation.

Kanban for Video Game Development

Published August 23rd, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

This session describes how Lean Production and Kanban has been applied to game development. Lean principles and Kanban tools have been used by a number of developers, including the presenter, to slash production costs by over 50%. As a complement, or replacement, to Scrum, Lean/Kanban provides predictability, transparency and optimization for complex game production.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/kanban-video-game-dev

Kanban and Scrum

Published August 19th, 2010 Under Project Management | 4 Comments

This video briefly explains the differences and similarities between Kanban and Scrum.

Related article: Aspects of Kanban

Comparing FitNesse, Cucumber and keywords for Domain Specific Test Languages

Published August 19th, 2010 Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

FitNesse, BDD/ATDD based tools (like Cucumber) and various keywords based tools each have their followers when it comes to automated testing at the system or acceptance level. But few have tried each type and many are wondering which one best suits their organisation, project or product. The concept of Domain Specific Test Languages (DSTL) is a great improvement over record & playback based approaches to automated testing and promises easy to read & write tests in the language of the business and low maintenance effort. This interactive session first presents DSTLs and how they fit in an Agile process & team and then considers how each type of tool supports this effective approach to automated testing. The tools will be compared using one non-trivial test case, to illustrate some of their strengths and limitations

Watch this video on Skillsmatter.com

The Need For Enterprise Agility – Vision and Case Study

Published August 19th, 2010 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

Alan Shalloway discusses the need for lean enterprises to harmonize business with management and the technical team, offering advice for each component of the enterprise. Eileen Shuter presents Vanguard’s journey adopting Agile then gradually moving to Kanban, explaining why Kanban makes more sense to them, what it offers over Agile and what are the benefits.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-Need-For-Enterprise-Agility


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