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| The Latest from Allan Kelly's Blog | MORE | | Dialogue Sheets - update & new planning sheet When I do training course I always give teams one or two retrospective dialogue sheets for them to use for their first retrospectives. 'Last month InfoQ carried an update on the use of retrospective dialogue sheets. The use of these sheets continues to grow and I continue to receive good feedback. If you’ve tried the sheets and haven’t sent me some feedback than please e-mail me and let me know about your experiences. And for those of you who’ve not tried a dialogue sheet retrospective, whats stopping you? The Dialogue Sheet PDFs are free to download. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, May 7, 2013 Agile Clinic: Dear Allan, we have a little problem with Agile. The sender has graciously agreed to let me share the mail and my advice with you, all anonymously of course… The sender is new to the team, new to the company, they are developing a custom web app for a client, i.e. they are an ESP or consultancy. 'Consider this blog an Agile Clinic. On Friday an e-mail dropped into my mailbox asking if I could help. the Developers work in sprints, estimating tasks in JIRA as they go. Sprints last three weeks, including planning, development and testing. have been tasked to produce burndowns to keep track of how the Dev cells are doing.” Perhaps both. Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, April 28, 2013 Requirements whose job are they anyway? base this statement partly on the fact that when I deliver my Agile for Business Analysts course (at Skills Matter later this week and another version then later this month at Developer Focus ) I find people on the course who I would regard as Product Managers but they - and their employees often have never heard of the Product Manager role. 'Later this week I’m giving a talk at Skills Matter entitled: “Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner, Spy!” think there are a number of problems on this side of the business. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, April 15, 2013 | | The Best from Allan Kelly's Blog | MORE | | Reuse Myth - can you afford reusable code? In my Agile Business Conference present (“ How much quality can we afford? ”) I talked about the Reuse Myth , this is something always touch on when I deliver a training course but I’ve never taken time to write it down. Until now. Lets take as our starting point Kevlin Henney’s observation that “ there is no such thing as reusable code, only code that is reused. Kevlin (given the opportunity!) goes on to examine what constitutes “reuse” over simple “use.” In effect that design effort is over engineering, waste in other words. cost of re-usability. Think about this. Waste. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, October 12, 2010 Things to do to improve code quality As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, I was recently out in Oslo teaching a course on Lean software development. This section of the course included an exercise were I ask the participants to think of things they could do to improve code quality. Before each step there is an opportunity for re-adjustment and course correction both at the work planning level and at the code level. One of the points I make is: Quality is free (or at least cheaper) provided you invest in improving quality. On the plus side it can be used on any type of project, Agile, Waterfall or other. Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, June 3, 2010 Agile elevator pitch Of course this is context specific. My (our) entry in the Agile elevator pitch competition: “[Agile] Provides philosophy, techniques and tools to alleviate the pain of traditional development and make teams more effective thus increase your profit. Companies such as the BBC, GE Energy, Yahoo, the Financial Times, The Guardian and others have already adopted the approached.” As some people know, I’ve been doing a lot of work in Cornwall recently. The above is our result. Too many senior managers this is irrelevant because they don’t know anything about software development. Indifferent? Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, November 2, 2010 | - Agile: Where's the evidence?
If you want something a little more grounded there was a recent Forrester report (sorry, I can’t afford the full report) which said: “Agile enables early detection of issues and mid-course corrections because it delivers artefacts much sooner and more often. A few weeks ago I was presenting at the BCS SIGIST conference - another outing for my popular Objective Agility presentation. Someone in the audience asked: “Where is the evidence that Agile works?” My response was in two parts. It is rarely a question aimed at a rational decision. to which the answer is certainly No. Scrum? Finance? Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, March 30, 2012 - How to improve a team's velocity?
So, invest in developer training, buy them books, send them on courses, bring in coaches, set up book study groups and other exchanges were developers can learn to do things better. By way of wrapping up my velocity mini-series ( Two ways to fill and iteration , Filling an iteration too well , and Velocity Targeting and Velocity Inflation ) I’m going to end with some advice on how to improve a team’s velocity. Bad news first: there are no silver bullets, there are no easy answers, there is no quick way of doing this. Each little fix improve your productivity (velocity) a little bit. Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, July 1, 2010 - When did Scrum start loving project managers?
Indeed I once sat in on a course entitled “Agile Project Management” by a well known Scrum trainer. For example, take Martine Devos’ London Scrum Master Course , it is worth 14 PMI Professional Development units. Jeff Sutherland’s own Scrum Master course boast 16 PDUs (one assume these are PMI units although he doesn’t state so explicitly.) So, if the PMI are now crediting Scrum Master Courses, and the Scrum folks are making their courses compliant with PMI rules then one assumes that the two are reconciled. Note there is no role of project manager in Scrum. Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 10 Things to make you Agile adoption successfull
One of the closing slides in my Agile Foundations course includes a quote from Ken Schwaber saying that only 30% of teams who attempt Scrum will be successful. few months ago, at the end of the course, someone asked the obvious question, a question so obvious I wonder why nobody has asked it before: “What can we do to ensure that we are in the 30% who make it?” You can read the books, you can experiment, you can go on courses. What I find interesting about this quote is that it aligns with many other change management studies. Either way, the prognosis isn’t optimistic. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, May 14, 2012 - 11 Agile Myths and 2 Truths
I deliver a lot of Agile training courses and I give a lot of talks about Agile ( BCS Bristol tonight ). There are some questions that come up again and again which are the result of myths people have come to believe about Agile. Consequently I spend my time debunking these myths again and again. ve been keeping a little list and there are 11 reoccurring myths. There are also two truths which are a bit more difficult for teams and companies to accept. Agile means No Documentation: You can have as much documentation as you like in Agile. Every team is different, get over it. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - 10 pieces of advice for teams
Of course, if you are a self-managing team you should all read this list. I have started to write up a more useful description of Xanpan. In doing so two things have happened. First I’ve realised that I have an awful lot I would like to say about it, I’m terrified it will become another book. Second, I’m becoming more and more aware of how Xanpan differs from Scrum, XP and Kanban. As a result I expect this blog will get a little quieter. But before the end of the year I’d like to get a few entries finished and published which have been languishing for a while. Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, November 22, 2012 - Agile is like.
Under certain conditions of, course.) And, of course, most people feel that all problems in these areas are caused by other people.” Under certain conditions of, course.) And, of course, most people feel that all problems in these areas are caused by other people In the software development world there are, broadly speaking, two groups of people: those who create the software (coders, testers, etc.) and those who manage the process (project managers, development managers, etc.). When discussing “Agile” I find that both sides think the problem is with the other. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, September 7, 2010 %>
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| The Latest from DevelopMentor | MORE | | Unit testing code depending on the ASP.NET #WebApi HttpClient Of course we still need tests for updating existing resources as well as deleting them but with these examples those should be easy enough :-). 'In a previous post I showed how to unit test an ASP.NET WebAPI Controller. But with a REST service there is both a client and a service component. Assuming for a moment the client part is also written in C# we should test that as well. In this case the client application contains the following class to load books from the REST WebAPI controller: 1: public class BooksClient. 7: _httpClient = httpClient; 8: BaseUrl = new Uri( "[link] ); 9: }. The Problem Solver - Monday, May 20, 2013 Dialogue Sheets - update & new planning sheet When I do training course I always give teams one or two retrospective dialogue sheets for them to use for their first retrospectives. 'Last month InfoQ carried an update on the use of retrospective dialogue sheets. The use of these sheets continues to grow and I continue to receive good feedback. If you’ve tried the sheets and haven’t sent me some feedback than please e-mail me and let me know about your experiences. And for those of you who’ve not tried a dialogue sheet retrospective, whats stopping you? The Dialogue Sheet PDFs are free to download. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, May 7, 2013 Reblogged: What should I learn to get started in.NET and web development? Here’s my advice along with a bunch of courses you can use to accomplish this efficiently and affordably. Here are the related LearningLine courses from DevelopMentor which will walk you through this path. Because you can preview the first lesson of each course, you have about 7 hours free and the rest are all included in an affordable $29 subscription. If a lesson (task) happens to be shared across courses, you’ll see it already marked as completed for you and you can just skip to the next. Hope you all find it useful here as well]. How do I do that?” Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Monday, May 6, 2013 | -
| The Best from DevelopMentor | MORE | - Why Choose NoSQL and Document Databases over RDBMS
This is an excerpt from my upcoming online MongoDB course for DevelopMentor. Filed under: NoSQL Tagged: DevelopMentor , LearningLine , NoSQL , Online courses , Online learning , Screencasts. NoSQL DevelopMentor LearningLine Online courses Online learning Screencasts 'Do you want to know the biggest single reason you should choose document databases over SQL Server, Oracle, or MySQL? Hint: It’s not performance or scalability. You can take the first 1 1/2 hours for free here: Early access: MongoDB and NoSQL for.NET developers. Cheers, @mkennedy. - Take the first hour of any online developer course for free at LearningLine
We are announcing the ability to preview any of our online courses, for free without entering any payment information. You can now study approximately the first hour of any one of our courses. To get started, just head over to our schedule page , click on any course title you’d like and choose “ Preview course for free “: . At the time of this writing, there are 27 courses which run between 4 and 15 days in length. So head on over to the schedule page and find a course that is right for you: https://learninglineapp.com/schedule. - ELINQ with EF 4.0 Course Update
I’ve been working feverishly the last couple of months to update my DevelopMentor course: Essential LINQ with Entity Framework 4.0. Here is a breakdown of the course content: Day 1: 1. Here’s when and where we’re offering the course: Boston: February 9-12, 2010 London: February 23-26, 2010 Los Angeles: March 30-April 2, 2010 Boston: April 20-23, 2010 London: May 4-7, 2010 Los Angeles: June 8-11, 2010 Boston: June 29-July 2, 2010. Functional Programming in C# 2. LINQ to Objects 3. LINQ to XML. Day 2: 4. LINQ to SQL 5. EF: Architecture 6. EF: LINQ to Entities. Day 3: 7. Tony and Zuzana's World - Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - Richard Blewett: Devweek 2013–WCF Crash Course
Thanks to everyone who attended my Devweek 2013 pre-conference session on WCF. You can get the slides and demos here DevelopMentor Courses - Tuesday, March 5, 2013 - Flowcharts in Workflow 4 and the Switch activity
Of course the FlowSwitch should just to a ToString() on the expression result , anything else would be pointless as any comparison fails. Flowcharts are a nice addition to Windows Workflow Foundation 4. They allow for a lot of pretty complex behavior that is hard to do in a sequential workflow. In WF 3 we used to model these complex behaviors as state machine workflows. That worked but they weren't really state machines or event driven and things could get a bit tricky. No it is just another activity to drop in a workflow. guess you get the picture. So far so good. Next (5). Enjoy! The Problem Solver - Tuesday, October 27, 2009 %>
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