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Quality Agile Development - August 2008
Volume 3 Number 8
Agility is all about Quality and in this month’s issue our talented writers explain Quality Agile Development. Agile’s focus on Test Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration (CI), and customer driven requirements are just the tip of the Agile quality iceberg. Anders Wallgren starts us off by telling us to Do the Pre-Flight Check so Your Code Doesn’t Crash and Burn After Takeoff. Kevin Coleman helps us to see that Quality is built in, not bolted on including his explanation of operational integrity measures and Original Software gives us a discussion on Software testing in an Agile environment - Ten challenges QA have to face and solve. Pete Morowski describes Borland's journey to cut costs and boost the organization’s efficiency and quality. My buddy Brad Appleton reviews “The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility”, by Michelle Sliger and Stacia Broderick. This month Cesário Ramos and Eelco Gravendeel gives us the first of a three part series covering the 9 pitfalls of adopting SCRUM. And, of course, I weigh in on my views of how Agile aids in developing quality code. This is a great issue and we hope that you will share your views of Quality Agile Development.
Bob Aiello
Assistant Editor
Agile Journal
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Applying Agility - Quality Agile Development
Becoming more Agile involves significant changes in the way that we work on a day-to-day basis. One of the central reasons that many technology professionals embrace Agility is its best practices which enhance the Quality of an application effort. Agile practices cut straight to the reasons that many projects fail. Of course, many organizations have also seen that adopting Agile practices does not automatically guarantee them improved Quality either. What practices should you focus on to ensure ...
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Do the Pre-Flight Check so Your Code Doesn't Crash and Burn After Takeoff
Agile development and continuous integration challenges
To travel by air, you get to the airport, check in, with any luck get on a plane, and get to your destination. Perhaps you do not arrive precisely on time, but close enough that you make that important meeting or family event. Like jumbo jet pilots, software development teams and project managers have a lot more to worry about than the final consumers of the software or the passengers on the plane. Pilots have to go through a rigoro...
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Agile Development - Quality is built in, not bolted on!
As Agile software
development practices mature and move into the mainstream, it is vital that organizations
understand how Agile practices can
help you deliver higher quality software. The Agile is a methodology for software development that promotes
development iterations, open collaboration, and adaptability throughout the project
life-cycle. Currently, the measures within many Agile
projects focus on the successful delivery of software. We refer to
these as process measures. ...
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 | Continuous Quality - Shortening the Development and Test Feedback Loop Beyond Continuous Build
Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I outlined how software can be
delivered faster, and with higher quality, when automation and Lean thinking
are applied to the development cycle. Now, in Part 2, I will take the general concepts
from Part 1 and walk you through the details of actually implementing an
automation infrastructure. If I achieve my objective (readers, you can be the
judge), I will build up an example that addresses both the key principles and
feedback cycles. Once you're arm...
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 | Top 9 challenges of adopting Scrum
First of a three part series...
Introducing Scrum can be fun, but can also be quite a challenge. There are numerous hurdles to overcome, new practices to master and problems to solve. In this article, we will present some of the mistakes we have seen made, or made ourselves when introducing Scrum at various companies. The discussed pitfalls are valid within the context of a company in the process of adopting Scrum. Stepping into any of these pitfalls will make your implementation more challengi...
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 | The Borland Agile Journey - An Executive Perspective on Enterprise Transformation
I begin this story by declaring up front that I am not an
"Agilist" or process evangelist. I am the senior software development executive
in a company responsible for delivering products to the marketplace. Like my
peers across industries, I am fundamentally held accountable by my company for
consistently delivering business results.
Process and methodologies are important in delivering this value, but in
the eyes of the company they are secondary to meeting the needs of the
busines...
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 | Software testing in an Agile environment
Ten challenges QA have to face and solve
Agile is a methodology that is seeing
increasingly widespread adoption, and it is easy to understand why - especially
if you consider the developer and user view-points....
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 | FEATURED BOOK: The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility
by Michelle Sliger and Stacia Broderick
For all you PMPs, PMOs, PMI
members and PMBoK
people out there ... This is it! This book is "the one" for you. Look no further than Michelle Sliger's and Stacia
Broderick's The
Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility to take all the standard
project management concepts and terms you've been entrenched in for the past
decade or three and to explain the crux of Agility to you from within that
domain. The book's title has it...
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