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Submit Link | RSS Feed |It looks like Microsoft has been encouraging there teams to use Agile Practices including eXtreme Programming and Scrum. More specifically they used Scrum to get SQL Server 2005 out of the door.
The original wiki. You want to learn something about a specific subject of software engineering, start there.
One of Martin Fowler’s most popular essay’s describing the essentials of agile methodologies including brief introductions to the different agile methodologies. A good read.
An introduction to user stories that was first introduced in eXtreme Programming and the difference between user stories and use cases.
In Martin Fowlers essay “Is Design Dead?” Martin covers why big up front design is not good and how evolutionary design is a viable design strategy.
One authors argument that we have, or are coming very close, to crossing the chasm and moving towards wide spread acceptance.
Some nice diagrams in the article. Check it out!
Agile Cheat Sheets that I have personally printed and thumb tacked to my wall in my office. Me like.
I read this short essary a couple days and it really hit home. Rules to not only develop by but live your life by.
Agile Axioms: We are Creators, Reality is Perceived, Change is Natural
Part 2 of the two part series… excellent read.