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• Minimal Viable Team to create a Minimally Viable Product
  
  Despite being a bit of a mouthful to say “Minimal Viable Product” and the even more difficult to say “Minimally Marketable Feature” (also known as a “Quantum of Value” or “Business Value Increment”) are very useful concepts. What makes gives them killer power is that they speak to a secret belief held by many people (not just managers) that teams gold-plate development and create products with more than is needed. The same applies to product development: saying Yes to a feature is easy, saying No is hard, but unless you say No a lot more than Yes you won’t have a MVP.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, October 8, 2012
• Productivity Power Tools 2012 – February 2012
  
  A new update to Productivity Power Tools 2012! This update includes a couple of bug fixes including a crashing bug in the Custom Document Tab Well on debug. Download now! Link: [link]. Download: ProPowerTools.vsix. Visual Studio 2012
  DevelopMentor Courses - Monday, February 25, 2013
• You are not Steve Jobs (and don't try to be him)
  
  Jobs was a perfectionist: products didn’t get launched unless he approved of them. Jobs would spurn products/employees who he didn’t think were up to scratch: if employees are loyal to the company and to you, and if you have a deep talent pool, and (perhaps) the stock-options are worth a lot you might get away with this. Apple products are simple because they lack so much, once launched they are refined and elaborated in the market. Thus we have the discipline of Product Management to help us. it is a copy). My concern is simply that Jobs was not a good role model.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, November 18, 2011
• Heresy: My warped, crazy, wrong version of Agile
  
  I increasingly feel that the way I interpret Agile, the practices and the processes, if different to the rest of the world. Perhaps this is just self doubt, perhaps because I started doing Agile-like-things before reading about XP or Scrum, perhaps this is because my version has always been more informed by Lean, perhaps this is because I have never achieved Certified Scrum anything status, perhaps because I’ve never worked for ThoughtWorks, perhaps because I hold and MBA (and thus have an over inflated opinion of myself) or perhaps I’m just wrong. And I believe it is wrong to pretend you can.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, February 9, 2012
• Agile: Where's the evidence?
  
  Despite this one study claimed Scrum resulted in productivity improvements of as much as 600% - Benefield, “Rolling Out Agile in a Large Enterprise”. 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. First although it sounds like a reasonable question I’ve come to believe that this is a question that is asked by those who don’t believe in Agile, those who want to stall thing. to which the answer is certainly No.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, March 30, 2012
• Using Reporters in Approval Tests
  
  1: using ApprovalTests.Reporters; 2: using NUnit.Framework; 3: 4: namespace ApprovalTests.Tests.Html 5: { 6: [TestFixture] 7: [UseReporter( typeof (DiffReporter), typeof (FileLauncherReporter))] 8: public class HtmlTest 9: { 10: [Test] 11: public static void TestHtml() 12: { 13: Approvals.ApproveHtml( " Web Page from ApprovalTests " ); 14: } 15: } 16: } I have found that using the right Reporter or Reporters at the right time in the testing cycle has made me more productive. Today I pushed new versions of ApprovalTests for both C# and Java to SourceForge. Why Use Reporters? png, *.html,
  DevelopMentor Courses - Saturday, December 31, 2011
• Use Common Instance Factory to Abstract Away the Dependency Injection Container
  
  You have to select a DI container from one of numerous proprietary and open-source products on the market and then marry yourself to it. Download the Common Instance Factory with WCF Extensions here and is also available on NuGet. while back I wrote a blog post on the Onion Architecture , an approach to building loosely-coupled applications where you can swap out particular components without affecting the rest of the application. They key to making it all work is the use of Dependency Injection , also known as Inversion of Control, to delegate creation of types to an external container.
  DevelopMentor Courses - Wednesday, May 23, 2012
• An Effective Introduction to the STL Training
  
  I'm convinced it can improve a C++ programmer's productivity more than anything else in the language. -- Scott Meyers This seminar is a hard-core, hands-on, in-the-trenches indoctrination in the ways of the STL. Participants will gain: An understanding of the architecture behind the STL, including its core components and concepts. Mastery of the subtle differences in semantics of member and non-member functions with the same name, e.g., find, remove, etc. Knowledge of how to integrate STL containers with code expecting arrays and other C-like data structures. Exercises Further Reading
  DevelopMentor Courses - Tuesday, March 1, 2011
• Lynn Langit: About the new BISM in SQL Server 2012
  
  Are you using the BISM in production yet? Here’s the webcast I did (around 60 minutes) on the new BISM in SQL Server 2012 — enjoy! Here are the slides on slideshare as well. I’d love to hear how it’s … Continue reading →
  DevelopMentor Courses - Sunday, July 22, 2012
• Guerrilla.NET (US) Training
  
  Debugging : Come and learn to build robust.NET applications including tools and techniques for monitoring and debugging applications in a production environment. Debugging : Come and learn to build robust.NET applications including tools and techniques for monitoring and debugging applications in a production environment. Platforms such as Ruby on Rails have shown that Model/View/Controller (MVC) is a highly productive and very testable pattern for building web applications. C# : Leverage new features of C# including asynchronous methods from C# 5.0, assuming Silverlight 5.0
  DevelopMentor Courses - Tuesday, March 1, 2011
• Guerrilla.NET (UK) Training
  
  How can I reduce the number of bugs that make it into production? WinDBG and the plugin SOS.DLL bring a new set of tools to.NET developers that can provide insights that help you solve bugs that you see during testing but also allow you to diagnose issues occurring in production systems where the only data you can get is a crash dump file. Leverage new features of C# 4.0, including named and optional parameters and dynamic typing. Understand the new features of the core.NET runtime services including the garbage collector. Workflow 4, ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight. couldn't?
  DevelopMentor Courses - Tuesday, March 1, 2011
• 10 Things to make you Agile adoption successfull
  
  What ever you call the role you want someone who can: Provide advice on which practices and process to adopt, and how to best adopt them Offer examples of what they have seen work, and not work, elsewhere, and how other team tackle similar issues Observe, examine, query and challenge your thinking on what you are doing Challenge your thinking and point out opportunities and idea that you haven’t seen yet You may need to work with multiple advisors since few will be able to cover all process, practice, technology, product and strategy bases. Either way, the prognosis isn’t optimistic.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, May 14, 2012
• Llewellyn Falco (Approval Tests): What I've learned about open source by pairing with Simon Cropp
  
  Use this when creating your nuget with the -Version flag If any of this was confusing checkout these files from my project: VersionInfo.cs , ApprovalTests.csproj , ApprovalTests.CSharp.nuspec , CreateNuget.cmd 1.dll per Nuget Having more than one dll file in a nuget package is a bit counter productive since you now can''t use only 1 of them. 'Over the last 2 weeks I have be fortunate enough to pair with Simon Cropp for about 8 hours on my open source project ApprovalTests. Think about your ''brand'' Often I am writing ApprovalTests because I use ApprovalTests myself. There isn''t.
  DevelopMentor Courses - Saturday, May 25, 2013
• 11 Agile Myths and 2 Truths
  
  Documentation is just another deliverable , if it brings you value then schedule it and product it like anything else. Agile needs more discipline from the team and what gets done should be lead from a specific role usually designated the Customer or Product Owner and usually played by a Product Manager or Business Analyst. 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.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, February 26, 2013
• Tooling stack of testing Asp.MVC Views
  
  Here’s the List CassiniDev Inline webserver NCrunch Continuous Test Runner GitHub for Windows Source Control CruiseControl.Net Continuous Integration TortoiseDiff Diff Viewer (part of TortoiseSVN) Code Rush Productivity Enhancement for Visual Studio NuGet.Net Package Manager It was great to see this level of professionalism in a demo session; an area usually reserved for cowboy programming of hello world demos. “Craftsmen know their tools” At last weeks Jim Counts did a session on Testing MVC Views with ApprovalTests. Asp.MVC Asp.Net C
  DevelopMentor Courses - Sunday, July 22, 2012
• Testing triangles, pyramids and circles, and UAT
  
  typically hear people say there are between two and four times as much test code (for unit tests) as production code. Both mean: showing a potentially finished product to real life users and getting their response. 'A few months ago Markus Gartner introduced me to the Testing Triangle, or Testing Pyramid. It looks like this: If you Google you will find a few slightly different version and some go by the name of Testing Pyramid. Now a question: where did this come from? Who should I credit with the original? Markus thinks it mike be Mike Cohn but he’s not sure.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, May 24, 2013
• Does anyone actually use Quick Test Pro etc.?
  
  Those who talk about automated testing buy tools like Quick Test Pro, WinRunner and Quality Centre and Rational Test Workbench, Rational Quality Manager, i.e. expensive products from the likes of HP and IBM. The IBM and HP products are expensive, so expensive you have to ask the price (actually IBM does give the price of Test Workbench at $5,500 for a single user license). The people who are sold these products are very disconnected from the day-to-day work of developers and testers. QTP and similar products are often linked to the OS or browser. Gerkin, RSpec, etc.)
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, September 19, 2012
• This (new) developers life
  
  It is more in a story telling venue, better production quality, not about API’s or even craftsmanship, but rather “common” themes to lives programmers. They are nice, but it stirred in me an issue that first surfaced last year at Tech Ed South Africa, when I attended a presentation that presented this clip from the Movie “The social network” about being “wired in” and then stated this is the best way to be productive. Today I discovered the podcast “ This Developer’s Life ”. It’s a very differently crafted podcast. listened to Episode’s “ Play ” & “ Problems ”. No smaller.
  DevelopMentor Courses - Sunday, January 22, 2012
• Maximising profit from IT
  
  increase in sales per employee” That is, rather than looking to IT to save the company money, i.e. reduce costs, IT spending on generating revenue - innovation, new products, new services, new ways of capturing customers, and so on - is more beneficial to the company. But then, since much of IT - specifically when developing new products - looks a lot like R&D perhaps its not always clear. Which also implies that there is more competitive advantage in using IT for innovation, products, services and improving the customer experience. That might come as a surprise.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, July 24, 2012
• Conway's Law v. Software Architecture
  
  There is need for a philosophy of system design management which is not based on the assumption that adding manpower simply adds to productivity." I've written about Conway's Law before ( Return to Conway’s Law (2006) and a Focus Group I ran at EuroPLoP “What do we think of Conway’s Law Now?” ) but I make no apologies for revisiting it again because I still think it hold true. There are times when I wonder if there is any point to the discipline called "Software Architecture." Conway, 1968 The original paper “ How do committees invent? is available from Conway’s own website.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, March 13, 2013