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Scrimmage as answer to scrum for support

By Daniel Marbach
In Methodology
May 6, 2009
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Peter Stevens from scrum-breakfast.com blogged today a really interesting article about an adapted scrum process for IT support. As Peter Stevens describes in his post on of his attendees in his workshop was the leader of IT Support for the EE Department of the ETH Zurich. They where facing the problem that their support group had to deal with daily business and they had to successfully compete medium term projects but their daily business was consuming all their time. The answer to their...

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Agile: In A Flash

By Urs Enzler
In Methodology
April 10, 2009
1 Min read
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I found the blog Agile: In A Flash some time ago and I really like it.
The blog discusses agile software development based on flash cards. The authors put together cards that each express a single idea, practice or methodology in agile software development.
Go and have a look!

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The Essence of Scrum And Test Driven Development

By Urs Enzler
In Methodology, Test Driven Development
March 14, 2009
3 Min read
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Lately, I asked myself why I like Scrum most. I’m a big fan of Scrum because of a lot of things. So I asked myself: “What is the root cause of all these”. I tracked it down to two main things: Focus Feedback I’ll come back to that later. I’m also a big fan of Test Driven Development. Guess what,  I performed a root cause analysis on TDD, too. And once again: Focus Feedback After that, I asked myself: “Are there other things I like with these root causes?”. Yes there are: Playing Volleyball and...

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Overview/review of scrum tools

By Daniel Marbach
In Methodology, Software
March 5, 2009
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Some people share the opinion that scrum and other agile development methods are easily maintainable with pencil and post-it only. Nonetheless there is a growing list of software solutions which support scrum methodology. Boris Gloger from Scrum 4 You publishes regularly reviews of scrum tools on his blog. I strongly recommend to take a look at his website and the scrum tools list!

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Test Driven Development Speech at SET 2009

By Urs Enzler
In Methodology
March 5, 2009
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For those of you interested in TDD:
I’m speaking at the conference SET (Software Engineering Today) in Schlieren (Zurich) on Tuesday May 5th.
I’ll show the basics of the TDD cycle, benefits and pitfalls, and how you get started.
Link to SET 2009: SET 2009
Link to my session (german): TDD
Looking forward to some interesting discussions…

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Test Driven Development Myths

By Urs Enzler
In Methodology, Software, Test Driven Development
January 28, 2009
4 Min read
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I’m often hearing thoughts about Test Driven Development from people not using it, which are not true (at least not 100%).
Therefore, I want to describe some of these myths here:

Writing unit tests is difficult and complex
Projects take longer because of the additional test code that has to be written
Not everything can be tested with unit tests. Therefore TDD cannot be used.
There is no need for architecture and design because TDD claims to evolve that from tests

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