by Thomas Murphy | January 31, 2012 | 1 Comment
DVCS has become a popular trend in agile development with many open source projects making use of GIT and Mercurial and other vendors offering DVCS like function (see Hype Cycle for Application Development, 2011) but they are still a bit too on the edge for most enterprise use. Concerns about security, a still emerging toolset [...]
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by Thomas Murphy | June 17, 2011 | 1 Comment
I have been to lots of daily stand-up meetings in many different companies. It is great to see how different Scrum teams work and fit agile practices into their culture and to their needs. I saw a more unique instance this week on a visit to Rally Software. This wasn’t the traditional development team stand-up [...]
by Thomas Murphy | January 7, 2011 | 1 Comment
A few relatively new books have been filling my reading time lately and they offer great content on how to improve the development process and team especially if you are making a shift towards Agile: Continuous Delivery – this is a great new book on what it really takes to make Continuous Integration work and [...]
by Thomas Murphy | September 20, 2010 | Submit a Comment
Axosoft has produced a nice 10 minute intro to scrum that describes the core processes without being a vendor tool pitch. http://www.axosoft.com/ontime/videos/scrum If you are trying to explain or understand the basics of the approach this is a great overview.
by Thomas Murphy | August 2, 2010 | 3 Comments
Agile project methods are continuing to become a standard with many organization (though “Agile” itself doesn’t denote a standard method) and the results are generally positive. As we work on the update to the Integrated Quality Suites MQ, data is matching what I see on client calls. Agile is still often loosely defined in many [...]
by Thomas Murphy | June 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
At IBM’s Innovate conference a four person panel (Scott Ambler, Kim Warner, Reed Figgins, Brian Massey) addressed several issues with Agile and Testing. The starting question was the title line here. Agile generally thinks about small teams 5-15 people who work in close proximity (possibly the same room) with each other. Teams with the greatest [...]
by Thomas Murphy | June 8, 2010 | Submit a Comment
A lot of the calls I take focus on metrics for the QA team. How many testers per developer, how many hours of testing, how many defects, etc. Unfortunately many of these metrics don’t end up yielding useful information often because they are too simple and they leave to many variables open. We like metrics [...]
by Thomas Murphy | April 14, 2010 | 4 Comments
Over the past few years we have seen a solid growth in the number of companies using Agile development methods. From the ALM viewpoint Agile is one of the drivers for companies to acquire new tools. Rally Software has played well in this market with their SaaS delivered solutions supporting Scrum. Generally this market has [...]
by Thomas Murphy | April 9, 2010 | 5 Comments
As organizations begin to absorb Agile development methods they will see that there are lots of great tasks for developers to perform generally all which result in better quality code sooner in the life-cycle. Practices such as mandatory unit tests or test driven development (TDD), code reviews, static analysis, etc. are all great but they [...]
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by Thomas Murphy | January 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
Currently I see methodology discussions often start with “we are using the agile method.” This generally rubs me a bit the wrong way because I don’t think of Agile as a method or process but as a philosophy and a set of practices. It is also not 1 thing but a category. Or if we [...]
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