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| The Latest from DevelopMentor Courses | MORE | | Agile Clinic: Dear Allan, we have a little problem with Agile. Could it be that the Product Owners are not sufficiently flexible in what they are asking for and are therefore setting the team up to fail each sprint? 'Consider this blog an Agile Clinic. On Friday an e-mail dropped into my mailbox asking if I could help. 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. the Developers work in sprints, estimating tasks in JIRA as they go. And yo have Jira? Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, April 28, 2013 Requirements and Specifications 'As I was saying in my last blog, I’m preparing for a talk at Skills Matter entitled: “Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner, Spy!” So now I turned to a standard textbook on requirements: Discovering Requirements: How to Specify Products and Services by Alexander and Beus-Dukis. which I should just have entitled it “Requirements: Whose job are they anyway?” 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…. turned to the index and…. nothing. Which bring us back to BDD. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, April 15, 2013 Requirements whose job are they anyway? 'Later this week I’m giving a talk at Skills Matter entitled: “Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner, Spy!” In the extreme this means developers never get to meet, talk to or understand the people and businesses that will be using the product. However, it was another problem that was on my mind more when I thought up the talk: the confusion of roles between Business Analysts and Product Managers, made worse by the appearance of the Scrum Product Owner title. think there are a number of problems on this side of the business. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, April 15, 2013 | | The Best from DevelopMentor Courses | MORE | | 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 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 %>
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| The Latest from DevelopMentor | MORE | | Agile Clinic: Dear Allan, we have a little problem with Agile. Could it be that the Product Owners are not sufficiently flexible in what they are asking for and are therefore setting the team up to fail each sprint? 'Consider this blog an Agile Clinic. On Friday an e-mail dropped into my mailbox asking if I could help. 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. the Developers work in sprints, estimating tasks in JIRA as they go. And yo have Jira? Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, April 28, 2013 A Roundup of MongoDB Management Tools The data is a great asset when optimizing applications during development and potentially invaluable when diagnosing production issues. 'I’ve been working with MongoDB for a long time now. Back in the early days, there really were no management tools analogous to RDBMS tools (e.g. SQL Server Management Studio ). Since then, things have changed significantly. It’s time to look around and see what management / monitoring tooling is around these days for MongoDB. The news is good. There are many different options to choose depending on your platform and use-cases. link]. link]. Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Monday, April 22, 2013 Requirements and Specifications 'As I was saying in my last blog, I’m preparing for a talk at Skills Matter entitled: “Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner, Spy!” So now I turned to a standard textbook on requirements: Discovering Requirements: How to Specify Products and Services by Alexander and Beus-Dukis. which I should just have entitled it “Requirements: Whose job are they anyway?” 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…. turned to the index and…. nothing. Which bring us back to BDD. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, April 15, 2013 | -
| The Best from DevelopMentor | MORE | - Product Management an open secret, a differenciator
At the Skills Matter Agile Lean Kanban exchange the other week someone - sorry I missed you name - told me about a report from the BBC on Product Management. It turns out the report is from a branch of the BBC I didn’t know about, “BBC Academy” and it entitled “The State of Product Management 2010.” Its well worth reading if you have an interest in Product Management or the UK software development scene. Although I’ve not blogged about it for a while Product Management is one of my passions. In Silicon Valley there is a well developed role called the Product Manager. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 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 - Query composition with the ASP.NET Web API
12: public Product Get( int id). Loading the products with the original URL returns exactly the same result as before. This request “ [link] ” returns only product 11 to 15 ordered by the product name. Having the ASP.NET Web API as a REST service returning data is kind of nice but to be efficient on the wire we don’t want to return more data that required only to discard it in the client. As we have seen in a previous post just returning a collection data was real easy. As it turns out changing the service so the client can filter data is almost just as easy. 13: {. The Problem Solver - Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - EF4 compared to NHibernate
On the other side, NH is a much a more mature ORM product than EF and has better batching capabilities. It is also more extensible, especially as an open-source product. The end result will be greater parity between the two products going forward, making the choice even more challenging and determined mostly by philosophical and strategic factors. Last week while teaching my new LINQ and Entity Framework course I got a question asking me to compare EF4 with NHibernate. Not having worked extensively with NHibernate, I wasn’t in a position to address the question. Tony and Zuzana's World - Wednesday, January 13, 2010 %>
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