Posts Tagged ‘ agile ’

For those of you who didn’t make it to Rails Underground in July to witness my mind-blowing talk, Launching Ruby on Rails projects , it appears that Skills Matter has finally posted a video of it online. :-)The sound levels are really low… but hopefully you’ll find it helpful.You can also view the slides.Related...
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Earlier this week, we published Episode 3 of the Planet Argon Podcast. In this latest episode we responded to one of the ideas someone in the audience asked on this brainstormr, which was, “How do you manage bugs?”We had a round table discussion about how we classify and prioritize bugs with our clients, ticketing...
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Earlier this week our new podcast was approved and is now available in the Apple iTunes Store. We’re also soliciting topic ideas for future episodes on brainstormr.We posted Episode 2, The Letter Scotch, yesterday for your enjoyment. In this episode, we covered a handful of web browser tools that we use (and detest) to...
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While our team is typically focused on larger client and internal projects, we do get an opportunity to assist businesses on a much smaller scale. Whether this be through retainer-based consulting or through code audits, we have seen a lot of Ruby on Rails code over what has nearly been… five years!? We’ve been...
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My hat's off to Obie Fernandez for his recent article 10 Reasons Pair Programming Is Not For the Masses. I don't actually agree that only the elite are cut out for pair programming, but I do think he's on target with his list of obstacles to effective pairing.There's another axis to consider for fit,...
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Hello from London!Am currently enjoying the talks at Rails Underground 2009 in London and had the pleasure to be one of the first speakers at the conference. My talk covered a collection of what our team considers best practices. Best practices that aid in the successful launch of a web application and covered a...
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My schedule is not full, by the way, in case you need an extra hand to drive a Rails project to a successful conclusion.old_yeller – Dead code detection for Rails apps, though I’m a bit skeptical about the approach. RubyInstaller: Getting Started with Rails and MySQL – Quickstart instructions for Windows users. July/August Ruby workshop registration...
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Saw this tweet the other day…Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!So, I have to ask. How many toilets (buckets) do you maintain? How many of them still have projects/tasks in them? Why haven’t you flushed your toilets yet?
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On a recent trip to Las Vegas, I picked up The Four Hour Workweek for my Amazon Kindle to read on my flight. When I came back from my short vacation, I decided that I was going to change how I approach email on a daily basis. In my position, I receive a lot...
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As if delivering projects wasn’t hard enough. Delivering projects on time is even harder. As practitioners, we’re all responsible for measuring up the obstacles in front of us and are accountable to those measurements. At least, we should be.One of those measurements is time. Time is a funny thing. People have a lot of...
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