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Posted 11 April 08 12:00 by aridle | 1 Comments   
Ade Miller's New Blog
Our resident p&p Brit has moved his blog. You can now find Ade Miller's thoughts here: http://ademiller.com/blogs/tech/ . Check it out. Read More...
Posted 26 September 07 04:06 by aridle | 1 Comments   
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Agile 2007: Reaching New Heights - Learning to Adapt
In her opening keynote, Susan Ershler told the autobiographical story of her experiences climbing Mt. Everest. It was an entertaining talk. But, relating the subject matter to the Agile community was a bit of a stretch. The primary message of Susan's Read More...
Posted 17 September 07 08:32 by aridle | 0 Comments   
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More to come!
I'm still working on my posts summarizing the Agile 2007 sessions. But, I'm also trying to ship some updates to the TFS process templates right now. I'll kept good notes. So, the conference may be a faint memory, but I will get my thoughts up here. In Read More...
Posted 07 September 07 05:15 by aridle | 1 Comments   
Tuesday @ Agile 2007
Tuesday saw the opening keynote by Susan Ershler, as well as the beginning of the vendor talks that I organized this year. Here's the full list of sessions I attended: Reaching New Heights: Learning to Adapt by Susan Ershler Agile Tooling: A Point, Counter-point Read More...
Posted 21 August 07 02:26 by aridle | 0 Comments   
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Agile 2007: The First Thing to Build - Trust on Agile Teams
Diana Larsen is a special sort of nut. She's an organizational development and communications expert, not a technologist. Her sessions touch on many of the softer skills necessary to thrive on a team (any team, not just an Agile team). I've been seeking Read More...
Posted 21 August 07 02:12 by aridle | 1 Comments   
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Agile 2007: Having Fun with Rails & Agile Development
In 90 minutes, Garg, Matt and David built a working web photo sharing web site. Garg played customer. David played whip-cracker (um... PM), and David did all the heavy lifting with Rails. This talk was a high level introduction to the speed and power Read More...
Posted 14 August 07 11:46 by aridle | 1 Comments   
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Monday @ Agile 2007
The conference is organized a bit differently this year. The only thing going on this morning is registration. So, I checked in and scanned the program guide for sessions I'd like to attend. There are too many good looking talks, this year! I hate that! Read More...
Posted 13 August 07 10:04 by aridle | 0 Comments   
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Agile 2007
I will be attending Agile 2007 in Washington, D.C. next week. In my capacity as Vendor Talks Chair, I will be moderating the vendor talks in Meeting Room 3 on both Tuesday and Thursday. Drop me a note if you're attending the conference. I'd love to meet Read More...
Posted 09 August 07 06:50 by aridle | 0 Comments   
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Update: Iterative and Incremental Development
I am enjoying the copy of Visual Studio Team System: Better Software Development for Agile Teams by Will Stott and James Newkirk that I picked up the other day. So far, it is doing a good job of both explaining Agile and how an Agile team might use VSTS. Read More...
Posted 01 August 07 11:04 by aridle | 0 Comments   
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Definition: Iterative and Incremental Development
Agile software development methods are often described as being forms of something called iterative and incremental development (or, IID). But, what does that mean? I went looking for an answer recently, and was surprised to find a single, simple definition Read More...
Posted 25 July 07 04:49 by aridle | 2 Comments   
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Windows Live Writer Wins
Well, my 30 day trial of BlogJet expired recently. I enjoyed using the product. I especially liked the sense of humor embedded in the product. But, in the end, I am just too accustomed to Windows Live Writer to be productive in another tool. And, that's Read More...
Posted 08 June 07 10:45 by aridle | 0 Comments   
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Spam
Due to the number of spam comments I've been receiving (and moderating) lately, I've been forced to limit the length of time that you may comment on a post. I'm hoping this will reduce the amount of time I spend moderating the blog. If you have something Read More...
Posted 23 May 07 12:25 by aridle | 0 Comments   
Agile Prioritization
Joel Spolsky and Dmitri Zimine mixed it up last November over whether or not to interrupt a team in the middle of an iteration. I'm pretty late to this thread. But, I think I have something to add. So, here goes... Dmitri started the thread by arguing Read More...
Posted 27 April 07 06:26 by aridle | 1 Comments   
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CNN International was just here...
A CNN International crew from Hong Kong was just here filming the patterns & practices agile development space . They were working on a feature program called Global Office. They filmed me while I pretended to be reading email on Peter’s laptop while Read More...
Posted 27 April 07 01:31 by aridle | 2 Comments   
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