Agile is on sale, Old geeks keep going, Code quality matters
Reginald Braithwaite explains what he’s learned from sales, and how it applies to selling agile development techniques.
David J. Anderson thinks we need New Rules for Old Geeks.
Levent Gurses discusses Code Quality in Eclipse and adds two tools, Simian and CAP, to the list of Eclipse Code Quality plugins described in Paul Duvall’s developerWorks article.Joey Beninghove posts a short list of TDD Resources for .Net.
"When it comes to automated tests the first impression everyone (including myself) thinks that that would certainly increase the amount of time a certain feature is developed in. However as I started to practice TDD, Test First Programming, increasing the number of tests I came to the conclusion that automated tests actually allow you and the team to develop faster than without." (How TDD improves development speed and is very cost effective, Dan Bunea)
Danny Lesnadrini reviews SQL Refactor.
The first product release of AgileTrack is available. "AgileTrack is a development tool which assists in managing projects, tasks, and techniques leading to their completion." (AgileTrack: Agile/Extreme Programming Project Management, Iteration Planning, and Task Tracking Tool)
Levent Gurses addresses transparency in agile development: "Transparency is a major dynamic associated with agile development. At the roots of the people-centric model advocated by agile development is a philosophy of collaborative, non-punitive accountability that can be defined as transparency. Thanks to their social methodology, agile projects offer better transparency to clients, business partners and corporate decision makers. When broken down, this concept consists of management components such as individual responsibility, commitment, and accountability." (On the Way to Agile Transparency: Climbing the Big Wall)
"Agile software development requires input from all team members, and such collaboration is most effective when everyone participates." (Online Collaboration and Agile Software Development, Dr. Dobb’s)
