Although Agile processes are being used increasingly in many software development environments, some enterprises still haven’t adopted Agile because of various concerns, especially about using it with distributed teams. In this article, I focus on the obstacles to using Agile in a distributed team e ...

Lexington, MA, January 31, 2012- AccuRev, Inc., the leading provider of advanced tools for managing the software development process, today broke new ground with the release of the first Git integration that seamlessly bridges the world of open source and commercial tools for enterprise-class softwa ...

In the Sungard Front Arena, current software portfolio a business functionality called Market Server Capability (MSC) is embedded and duplicated in many components. By the application of Agile and Lean principles on model-driven development, we will get an Agile approach for constructing the archite ...

We executed our project in a Scrum manner without even knowing our method was Scrum. What initially looked like an impossible project was delivered in six months, with exceptional customer satisfaction and confidence all around.

Mockery is a simple yet PHP mock object framework for use in unit testing with PHPUnit, PHPSpec or any other testing framework. Its core goal is to offer a test double framework with a succint API capable of clearly defining all possible object operations and interactions using a human readable Doma ...

This free online tool provides simple service that allows you to create and edit your Scrum burn-down charts.

The new version v6.50 of freeware tool Sprintometer for Scrum and XP project management has been released on Jabuary 21, 2012. Everybody knows Sprint Burn down chart used in Scrum projects but very often managers need to know situation with the whole agile project and specifically they are intereste ...

Monrovia, CA – January 24, 2012 Parasoft Corporation, industry leader in automated defect prevention and detection, today introduced a new release of Parasoft Jtest: the industry's most comprehensive Java testing solution. Parasoft Jtest automates static analysis, unit testing, coverage an ...

Dealing with a large amount of user stories (more than your fingers and toes can account for) is not easy, most often they sit one after the other in your product backlog, or they are shuffled on a story map.

There is no such role as project manager in Scrum. But there are project managers in the organization. So what is the project manager supposed to do when the team is transitioning to Scrum? The easy part is that this question has already been asked and answered so many times. The hard part is that t ...

The Burndown chart is very simple. It is easy to explain, easy to understand. But there are pitfalls observed in many agile workshops and adoptions. People tend to think the Burndown chart is so simple they do not give appropriate attention to understand what it says.

It's difficult to change learned behavior, and even harder to change group habits. This is one reason why it is difficult establish Scrum Most companies understand that Scrum has a lot of potential and bears the chance to shorten time-to-market or the delivery of high-quality software, but. . . . An ...

"Agile testing" is not a completely different testing procedure but a software testing practice, following the principles of the Agile life cycle. How? Its most salient aspect is that it emphasizes testing and close work with the end users or at least with the story owners throughout the project.

Midje is a test framework for Clojure. I created it to support top-down as well as bottom-up testing, to encourage readable tests, to provide a smooth migration path from clojure.test and to support a balance between abstraction and concreteness.

The average Scrum team delivered a 35% improvement in velocity at Yahoo where teams properly coached delivered 300-400% improvements. The best Scrum Master at MySpace peaked at 267% of initial velocity after 12 weeks and averaged 168% increase in velocity over 12 Sprints. Most teams were less succes ...

Uppsala, Sweden, January 19, 2012 – Hansoft, the leading vendor of tools for defect tracking, agile and lean development, has successfully launched Hansoft 6.7, including a readymade integration with JIRA. Hansoft 6.7 bridges tools and methodologies with improved features and SDK capabilities. ...

Silicon Valley based Lean/ Agile ALM vendor Digité announced v1.4 of its Swift-Kanban tool which introduces SwiftSyncBETA for Atlassian JIRA that provides out-of-the-box integration with Swift-Kanban, and Card HierarchyBETA an early feature for users to explore Kanban for Portfolio Management ...

In projects that implement Scrum, the role of the ScrumMaster is very crucial. The ScrumMaster facilitates the team to achieve the end goal of the customer focuses on ensuring that any impediments and road blocks faced by the team are removed, and he ensures that the core focus of the team is on dev ...

This article introduces a model of culture that is simple to understand and apply. The model will be used to show that Agile, Kanban and Software Craftsmanship have strong cultural biases that limit the scope of their applicability. Finally, an approach will be outlined to select approaches that wor ...

Burlington, Mass – Jan 17, 2012 – Klocwork Inc, the global leader in automated source code analysis (SCA) solutions for developing more secure and reliable software, today launched Klocwork Insight 9.5. This latest release of the company's flagship product changes the entire usage mo ...