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• Agile Clinic: Dear Allan, we have a little problem with Agile.
  
  m no fan of Jira, or any other electronic tool but most team use one so nothing odd so far. '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. Sprints last three weeks, including planning, development and testing. Yikes!
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, April 28, 2013
• A Roundup of MongoDB Management Tools
  
  Back in the early days, there really were no management tools analogous to RDBMS tools (e.g. It’s time to look around and see what management / monitoring tooling is around these days for MongoDB. Robomongo — is a shell-centric cross-platform open source MongoDB management tool (i.e. My take : Robomongo is definitely my current favorite management tool for MongoDB. or.PHP file on your server and you get a well rounded management tool. The lack of management tools was hurting MongoDB’s adoption in the early days. The news is good.
  Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Monday, April 22, 2013
• Requirements and Specifications
  
  Having worked through this I conclude that BDD is an excellent specification tool. Now, while BDD and SbE may well give Developers first class specification tools these tools should not be mistaken for requirements tools and shouldn’t be used as such. '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!” 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. So I turned to my bookshelves…. nothing.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, April 15, 2013
• Requirements whose job are they anyway?
  
  On the other hand there are three reasons why I’m concerned about this trend: The “need side” is a fussy, messy, ambiguous area and I sometimes wonder if the rational engineering mindset is right tool here. 'Later this week I’m giving a talk at Skills Matter entitled: “Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner, Spy!” The talk title is a reference to the John Le Carre book “Tinker Tailor Solider Spy!” , its probably too clever by half and I should just have entitled it “Requirements: Whose job are they anyway?” think there are a number of problems on this side of the business.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, April 15, 2013
• The Architecture of WCF
  
  In these situations we can use metadata in the form of WSDL or WS-MetadataExchange to provide the client with a description of the endpoint which tools (Add Service Reference in Visual Studio and svcutil.exe from the command line) can consume and build the necessary code and configuration to invoke the service. 'Before WCF it was, of course, possible for software running on different machines to communicate. Over the lifetime of Windows there have been many technologies to achieve this: sockets, DCOM, MSMQ,NET Remoting, ASMX Web Services and more. Messages. Channels. WCF, as of 4.5,
  DevelopMentor Courses - Sunday, April 7, 2013
• DotNed podcast: Mads Kristensen on ASP.NET developer tooling in Visual Studio 2012 and beyond
  
  'For a change an English language podcast :-) In this podcast Maurice de Beijer speaks with Mads Kristensen about web tooling in Visual Studio 2012. Besides the standard build in tooling for web developer they also talk about Web Essentials 2012, the plugin Mads develops in his spare time to give web developers even more features and capabilities. Links: Blog: [link] Web Essentials 2012: [link] Web Developer Checklist: [link] Enjoy! Podcast DotNed
  The Problem Solver - Friday, March 15, 2013
• DotNed podcast: Mads Kristensen on ASP.NET developer tooling in Visual Studio 2012 and beyond
  
  For a change an English language podcast :-) In this podcast Maurice de Beijer speaks with Mads Kristensen about web tooling in Visual Studio 2012. Besides the standard build in tooling for web developer they also talk about Web Essentials 2012, the plugin Mads develops in his spare time to give web developers even more features and capabilities. Links: Blog: [link] Web Essentials 2012: [link] Web Developer Checklist: [link] Enjoy! Podcast DotNed
  The Problem Solver - Friday, March 15, 2013
• 11 Agile Myths and 2 Truths
  
  Please be aware: documentation is often unread, often fails to communicate, is used as a defensive tool and is typically the second most expensive think on a large software project (after rework). 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.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, February 26, 2013
• 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
• Agile Advice for Aviva (and many other big companies)
  
  Skype, VOIP, everything Don’t spend money on expensive test tools Manage teams as a whole: not a Test Team and a Test Manager there, and a Dev Team and a Dev Manager there, and a BA…. Testers: download the open source test automation tools and enrol developers to help you get them working. Testers: Automation, Automation, Automation - get with the Open Source tools - Selenium, FIT/Fitnesse, Cucumber, etc. 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.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, February 19, 2013