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A software development process can be viewed as a queuing system. Little’s law states: Lead Time = Work In Progress / Throughput ...

Many teams practicing BDD assume that the tool is the process . A lot of chatter is about:   What BDD tool (or framework) should I use? H...

People working in agile teams sometimes complain that stress levels are higher in agile projects. Now, we all know that it is not supposed t...

Agile teams are supposed to be agile. Yet, there are agile teams run by over zealous agile coaches, who in their quest to become agile have ...

Yes, please. Let's focus, instead, on "Preventing Defects". We need to develop software faster and with better quality than ...

BDD is more than just doing TDD right. Beginners in TDD struggle to understand that TDD is really about design and not testing. Similarly, n...

Studies have shown that agile methodologies shorten the software development cycle. Naturally, many assume that agile is all about speed. Th...

Makes me wonder. Agile development must be hard. Why else would there be so many Agile coaches? When people were doing waterfall, I don...

The role of the Business Analyst (BA) and Quality Assurance Engineer (QA) as we know it is changing. As agile methodologies become prevalent...

In an Agile conference, you will find two types of attendees - the preachers and the practitioners . The preachers are the speakers, the tr...

I attended Agile Boston Open Space 2010 (http://www.newtechusa.com/agileboston/events/AgileBostonOpen2010.asp) today. The event was at the M...

We all know, at least those of us in the software community, that TDD stands for "Test Driven Development". That's a huge misn...

ScrumBut is a practice where teams implement partial apsects of Scrum. As in - "We did Scrum BUT we did not have daily standups". ...

Automated Unit Testing is a process where developers programmatically test their code using test frameworks such as the XUnit framework. Cod...

Upstream testing is a process where developers and testers work together from very early in the development cycle - even as features are bei...

The Daily Stand-up meeting is the heartbeat of Scrum, an Agile methodology. This is a process that can be easily embraced by teams following...