In two years of leading agile projects at Avanade, an organization heavy in recent college hires, I’ve learned a number of lessons about how to be successful with junior develop...
Some projects are simply too big to finish on the release schedule that you want to maintain. Rally’s agile engineering team delivered a very disruptive architectural change las...
This paper describes the authors’ experiences creating a full Build Management System from a simple Version Control System. We will explore how the XP values of simplicity, feed...
In 2006, Oxygen Media CEO Geraldine (Gerry) Laybourne, the woman largely responsible for Nickelodeon’s early success, partnered with her XP/Scrum development team to create a ne...
Zorro is a system designed to automatically determine whether a developer is complying with an operational definition of Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices. Automated recogn...
This report examines how the VeriSign Managed Security Services team (MSS) has successfully extended agile software development practices to deal with a complex, multi-product dev...
Salesforce.com has recently completed an agile transformation of a two hundred person team within a three month window. This is one of the largest and fastest “big-bang” agile...