xpday Archive

  • This week at the XPDay 09 conference in London, I facilitated a discussion on practices, ideas and tools that help us focus on building software that matters. We started by quickly going over the conclusions from a similar workshop held in august during the Alt.NET UK conference. We then started...

    Building software that matters, part two

    This week at the XPDay 09 conference in London, I facilitated a discussion on practices, ideas and tools that help us focus on building software that matters. We started by quickly going over the conclusions from a similar workshop held in august during the Alt.NET UK conference. We then started...

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  • Dan Rough, Rob Bowley, Hibri Marzook and others from 7Digital presented an experience report of agile adoption by the services team at 7Digital, a media distribution company, today at XPDay 09. What’s really interesting about this experience report, compared to others at technical conferences, is that their CEO and commercial...

    Shock therapy agile adoption at 7Digital

    Dan Rough, Rob Bowley, Hibri Marzook and others from 7Digital presented an experience report of agile adoption by the services team at 7Digital, a media distribution company, today at XPDay 09. What’s really interesting about this experience report, compared to others at technical conferences, is that their CEO and commercial...

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  • Benjamin Mitchell from BNP Paribas presented an experience report on moving from Scrum to Lean and Kanban yesterday at XPDay 2009 in London. During the initial phases of the project, before he joined, consultants were called in to help implement Scrum. Soon after the consultants left there was a backlash...

    Software process improvements with Lean and Kanban at BNP Paribas

    Benjamin Mitchell from BNP Paribas presented an experience report on moving from Scrum to Lean and Kanban yesterday at XPDay 2009 in London. During the initial phases of the project, before he joined, consultants were called in to help implement Scrum. Soon after the consultants left there was a backlash...

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  • Mark Striebeck from Google opened XPDay 2009 today with a talk titled “Developer testing, from the dark ages to the age of enlightenment”. Suggesting that software testing is today in a renaissance stage, Striebeck said that the community is now rediscovering “ancient” practices. Most things we use in testing today...

    Improving testing practices at Google

    Mark Striebeck from Google opened XPDay 2009 today with a talk titled “Developer testing, from the dark ages to the age of enlightenment”. Suggesting that software testing is today in a renaissance stage, Striebeck said that the community is now rediscovering “ancient” practices. Most things we use in testing today...

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  • During his lightning talk on the requirements trap at XP Day 08, Allan Kelly presented the results of a Bain Consulting research which looked into the effectiveness of IT, alignment with business goals and the effects of those two factors on sales and IT spending.

    Doing the wrong thing right is better than doing the right thing wrong

    During his lightning talk on the requirements trap at XP Day 08, Allan Kelly presented the results of a Bain Consulting research which looked into the effectiveness of IT, alignment with business goals and the effects of those two factors on sales and IT spending.

    Continue Reading...