February 2010
4 posts
Why a Kanban Board is a Value Stream Map but a... →
Coding Is The Easy Part – techPortal →
Great post about the roles a developer plays during a software project
InfoQ: Agile and SOA, Hand in Glove? →
examining the compatibility between SOA and Agile development.
InfoQ: How Pair Programming Really Works →
January 2010
23 posts
Splitting user stories | David Draper on agile &... →
Agile requirements – back to basics | David Draper... →
“Much has been written about User Stories however, it is still a subject that I find people struggling with.
In this post I intend to review what are the choices that we make that enable us to claim a requirements approach as agile and how can user stories (when applied well) help us achieve this agility.”
Introducing Kanban in operations (Mattias Skarin) - devopsdays 09 (pdf)
What is Kanban? →
Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup →
Le mini-livre Scrum et Kanban en français - Scrum,... →
French translation for “Kanban and Scrum - making the most of both”
Updated my master deck of Agile & Lean slides. 278 pages of pictures!...
– @henrikkniberg
Process Safeguards and Ski Slopes →
Post from @kjscotland on placing processes on a spectrum of safety
Kanban's Not Better than Scrum, It's Just Smaller... →
How Pair Programming Really Works →
Theory of constraints for beginners | David Draper... →
Agile 2010 Be a Speaker →
Submission system now open
Creating Useful Measures « Lean and Kanban →
Usability Testing For Free →
If you’re looking to help a new client with their public facing web site, post up a picture of their landing page on Five Second Test and then give your client a summary of the feedback. It will really surprise them, and makes a great conversation point.
given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow
– Linus’ Law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
More formally: “Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix will be obvious to someone.”
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ongoing · Doing It Wrong →
Tim Bray on how enterprise IT needs to change, and should emulate web success stories wrt requirements, small teams, etc
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Java Build Tools: Ant vs. Maven →
Want to know why so many people hate maven? Deadly accurate epic rant from Kent Spillner. Read & despair.
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Kanban 101 →
Kanban 101 is an excellent introduction to using Kanban for software development. It introduces the basic concepts and leads you through to starting to implement it.
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Welcome
Welcome to Lean Development. This tumblog will become a collection of useful thoughts and ideas to enable more productive software development, and most of these will also apply to other work too.
We are looking for submissions of articles and quotes, photos of kanban boards, and anything you think would be useful to a software developer looking to become more productive. Submit your content...