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| The Latest from Allan Kelly's Blog | MORE | | Requirements and Specifications and so I’ve been giving a lot of thought to requirements. Bear with me, I’ll come back to this point at the end.) So I turned to my bookshelves…. The first book I picked up was Mike Cohn’s User Stories Applied , the nearest thing the Agile-set has to a definitive text on requirements. turned to the index and…. The nearest he comes is a reference to “Requirements Engineering” efforts. Next up Alistair Cockburn’s Writing Effective Use Case , the shortest and best reference I know to Use Cases. And even there there isn’t much to say. nothing. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, April 15, 2013 Agile Advice for Aviva (and many other big companies) I’m starting this blog entry on the train returning to London after speaking at Sync Conference in Norwich - and I’m finishing sitting in my local coffee shop on Tuesday. An awful lot of people at SyncConf worked for Aviva and during the day I spoke to many of them. Aviva are trying to be “Agile” but like every other big company are struggling. try to avoid talking about active clients at all in this blog. Nor am I in the habit of giving unsolicited free advice to clients.) Maybe you want to dismantle your IT group, at least embed it in the business. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 Version 2 "The Rewrite" - don't do it! - never ever rewrite you system From time to time I come across a team who want to rewrite their system. Either way there is a “Stop the world I want to rewrite” mentality. Lets me come to the point: this is always and everywhere a mistake. This is a mistake because customers don’t want to change. The may think that VB6 controls look odd but they know how to use it. Plus, they have their own business to run - or life to live - and changing systems is only going to get in the way. They were told to make it identical. Second, this is an utter waste. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, August 21, 2012 | | The Best from Allan Kelly's Blog | MORE | | How to improve a team's velocity? 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. Over time these add up to big improvements. To use economic logic: this is about improving the supply-side. The supply-side argument (largely monetarist) suggests the way to solve unemployment is not to increase demand (Keynes style) but to loosen and liberalise the labour market. But back to software. Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, July 1, 2010 Software Facts - well, numbers at least Its actually pretty hard to get these numbers and after hunting around I found myself with a copy of Capers Jones Applied Software Measurement. For now, I’d like to share some of the number in Applied Software Measurement. It is counter productivity to invest in tools before resolving organisational and methodology issues. Software does not age gracefully, and tends to become increasingly unstable and difficult to modify safely. Its a discussion of how to measure software and software teams. But he does have lots of interesting facts and numbers. Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, January 14, 2011 Things to do to improve code quality This section of the course included an exercise were I ask the participants to think of things they could do to improve code quality. On this occasion the exercise went particularly well and resulted in the list in the picture below: Lets run through these one by one - not necessarily in the order on the sheet: Test Driven Development: if there is one practice above all others which contributes to better code quality and fewer bugs it is TDD. Most developers don’t know how to do it, they need training and help (coaching) to do it. shame really. Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, June 3, 2010 | - 10 Things to make you Agile adoption successfull
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?” Given that I had the Managing Director, the Director of Technology and most of the technology team in the room it was an excellent opportunity to set the change agenda. And I fluffed it, despite having written a book on the subject I didn’t have a quick answer to hand. But it set me thinking: “What are the 10 things a team can do to make Agile (any flavour) stick?” Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, May 14, 2012 - Version 2 "The Rewrite" - don't do it! - never ever rewrite you system
From time to time I come across a team who want to rewrite their system. Either way there is a “Stop the world I want to rewrite” mentality. Lets me come to the point: this is always and everywhere a mistake. This is a mistake because customers don’t want to change. The may think that VB6 controls look odd but they know how to use it. Plus, they have their own business to run - or life to live - and changing systems is only going to get in the way. They were told to make it identical. Second, this is an utter waste. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - Agile Advice for Aviva (and many other big companies)
I’m starting this blog entry on the train returning to London after speaking at Sync Conference in Norwich - and I’m finishing sitting in my local coffee shop on Tuesday. An awful lot of people at SyncConf worked for Aviva and during the day I spoke to many of them. Aviva are trying to be “Agile” but like every other big company are struggling. try to avoid talking about active clients at all in this blog. Nor am I in the habit of giving unsolicited free advice to clients.) Maybe you want to dismantle your IT group, at least embed it in the business. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Factory Physics and software factories
The reason its difficult to read is nothing to do with the writing - which is actually quite easy going - but more down to the size and the maths. That said its a great book to read with lots of important facts and implications. The operations management module in my MBA all those years gave lots of suggestions and advice but left me wanting to know more. Now, to get back to the title of this blog post. Every so often I come across managers who liken their software development teams to factories. They are full of holes. Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, September 19, 2010 - Magic happens here - ERP, CRM, SAP, BPM
I want to draw a line under the BPM/SAP mini-series of blogs. am more aware than ever about the need to learn more in this area and actually I already know more thanks to people’s responses to these blogs - a few comments and a few e-mails. hope to spend time in future finding out more about this arena and why it presents so many difficulties. And I’m hoping to see Jez Higgins talk at ACCU 2010 , Wrestling with Giants.) However, I continue to have this feeling that the SAP folks just don’t explain themselves. Dont just tell me I don’t understand. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - Requirements and Specifications
and so I’ve been giving a lot of thought to requirements. Bear with me, I’ll come back to this point at the end.) So I turned to my bookshelves…. The first book I picked up was Mike Cohn’s User Stories Applied , the nearest thing the Agile-set has to a definitive text on requirements. turned to the index and…. The nearest he comes is a reference to “Requirements Engineering” efforts. Next up Alistair Cockburn’s Writing Effective Use Case , the shortest and best reference I know to Use Cases. And even there there isn’t much to say. nothing. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, April 15, 2013 - Xanpan, ToC, Guilt, plagiarism and sorry
To this day I take pride in trying to credit the source of my thoughts, back-up my ideas with research and apportion credit. So image how I felt after my last blog post, about Xanpan , when Benjamin Mitchell tweeted: “@allankellynet I'm unclear why you don't mention Theory of Constraints 5 Focussing Steps. My blog post discussing how to improve throughput on a Xanpan board was pretty much a Theory of Constraints description. had failed to credit. So how did I come to make this mistake? What's your thinking on this?” had plagiarised. Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, December 14, 2011 %>
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| The Latest from DevelopMentor | MORE | | Integrating the #WebAPI HttpClient and ApiController in a single test 'In the two previous blog posts I showed how to unit test and ASP.NET WebAPI controller and how to unit test the client side code depending on the HttpClient class. After all testing an ApiController by just calling the methods makes it perfectly possible to call them in such a way that would never be possible using a real HTTP request. So in order to complete out testing we should test the integration of the client and server parts using an integration test. However there we added a custom TestingDelegatingHandler to return a fake result message. Maurice de Bejeir - Monday, May 27, 2013 Maurice de Beijer: Integrating the #WebAPI HttpClient and ApiController in a single test 'In the two previous blog posts I showed how to unit test and ASP.NET WebAPI controller and how to unit test the client side code depending on the HttpClient class. After all testing an ApiController by just calling the methods makes it perfectly possible to call them in such a way that would never be possible using a real HTTP request. So in order to complete out testing we should test the integration of the client and server parts using an integration test. However there we added a custom TestingDelegatingHandler to return a fake result message. The Problem Solver - Monday, May 27, 2013 Unit testing code depending on the ASP.NET WebApi HttpClient 'In a previous post I showed how to unit test an ASP.NET WebAPI Controller. In this case the client application contains the following class to load books from the REST WebAPI controller: 1: public class BooksClient. This class uses the HttpClient to request the data from the service and extracts the books from the body before returning them. If we want to test this class we need to pass in an HttpClient object. This HttpMessageHandler is used as the pipeline to send requests and we can completely replace this with our own implementation. 14: {. Maurice de Bejeir - Monday, May 20, 2013 | -
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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. Over time these add up to big improvements. To use economic logic: this is about improving the supply-side. The supply-side argument (largely monetarist) suggests the way to solve unemployment is not to increase demand (Keynes style) but to loosen and liberalise the labour market. But back to software. Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, July 1, 2010 - How to rip audio books
So i listen to a lot of audio books, and here's how i create the mp3 of them. Overview we are going to create bite size files about 30 minutes each. link] 4) set your encoding bitrate to 64k & stereo, this is a very high quality audio book. To do this double click a track. then label them, and create the id tags. finally we'll attach a picture. Make sure the book is UNABRIDGED 1) get a ipod - i prefer the nano. link] Ripping 2) download audiograbber & install. link] 3) download lame encoder & install. select the Sectors>Last. And there you go Llewellyn Falco - Sunday, July 6, 2008 - How to build a Development/Test/Demo CA
So I ended up running Windows Cerificate Services which proved to be an easy to use, robust solution. just had to rebuild my Test CA (on Hyper-V) so I thought I'll document the important steps (for self-reference and whoever might be interested). They usually expire on the very day where you have to do an important demo. Now by default there is an entry pointing to the CA's Netbios name. better solution is to create a revocation list once, and store that at a publicly available location. Next you have to publish a CRL. Set it to e.g. five years. www.leastprivilege.com - Thursday, August 14, 2008 - How to get started with Knockout.js
Once you get into doing more client side JavaScript code with business applications and REST services you are going to run into the question of how to construct the client side HTML required to show the data to the users. Using jQuery Assuming most people are going to be using jQuery on the client you might start with some jQuery code to generate HTML. And in all likelihood the actual HTML that needs to be generated will be quite a bit more complex. The next step people tend to take is using templates. click( function () {. $.getJSON( The Problem Solver - Monday, February 6, 2012 - How to discover what font was used
Sometimes you’re working on a website and you get some images with text in them, but no one remembers what fonts was used in the image. No fear! There is a website call “What The Font” that will take your picture and tell you what font was used: [link]. ASP.NET DevelopMentor Courses - Monday, December 26, 2011 %>
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