Systemic Software Development for Agile Teams

Published July 13th, 2010 Under Agile, Project Management | Leave a Comment

Agile methods are people-oriented but they touch the surface of people dynamics. They provide a framework in which constructive interactions among all stakeholders may happen, but cannot per se generate those behaviors. The success of an Agile method is determined by more profound human dynamics. Organizational Systemic provides new insights on how an healthy team works and grows relationally and technically. This video presents its fundamentals and how they relate to different Agile methods.


Video Producer: Agile Central Europe Conference

Sustainable Test-Driven Development

Published July 7th, 2010 Under Agile, Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Steve Freeman proposes advice to write good tests that make development easier avoiding adding code that is hard to maintain. This presentation covers: test readability, complex test data, test diagnostics and test flexibility.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Sustainable-Test-Driven-Development

Learning TDD through Test-first Teaching

Published July 5th, 2010 Under Agile, Open Source Tools, Software Testing | Leave a Comment

How to get started with TDD? Test-First Teaching is an innovative teaching approach that is gaining widespread adoption. Sarah Allen talks about how she teaches Ruby and Rails through a test-first approach. She demonstrates test-first teaching and then discuss how to turn the corner from simply making tests pass to how to use a test-first approach to software design.

Video Producer: East Bay Ruby Meetup Group

The Pomodoro Technique

Published July 1st, 2010 Under Agile, Project Management | Leave a Comment

The Pomodoro Techniqueâ„¢ is a way to get the most out of time management. Turn time into a valuable ally to accomplish what we want to do and chart continuous improvement in the way we do it.

Getting Started with GivWenZen

Published July 1st, 2010 Under Agile, Open Source Tools, Software Testing | Leave a Comment

This screencast gives a 10 minute how to on getting started with GivWenZen. GivWenZen allows a user to use the BDD Given When Then vocabulary and plain text sentences to help a team get the words right and create a ubiquitous language to describe and test a business domain.

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