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My most Relevant posts on Agile organized for your reading pleasure
Since blogs in general and this one in particular tend to highlight recent postings, and since reading my recent postings alone will not really provide the context to understand what my major points are, I’ve decided to put together my most … Continue reading
My Fix for the “CreateRiaClientFilesTask task failed unexpectedly. — Attempted to access an unloaded AppDomain” error
I finally found a solution to the “CreateRiaClientFilesTask task failed unexpectedly. — Attempted to access an unloaded AppDomain” problem in Visual Studio which had been affecting me for many weeks on my current project. Googling it seems many people are struggling with it; … Continue reading
Asus EP121 Tablet/Slate PC Review
I’ve had the ASUS EP121 for a little while now and I thought I’d share my thoughts. This is certainly a slick little tablet and spans the gamut from tablet to Windows type laptop. The version I have is the … Continue reading
The flawed rhetoric about “Scrum” and “Organizational Dysfunction”
One of the most bizarre, yet highly touted, “features” of Scrum is that it “exposes Organizational Dysfunction”. Not mere team based, project based, or even departmental dysfunction, but Organizational Dysfunction … enterprise wide. Now this is crazy on so many … Continue reading
The High Cost of Emergent Design/Subsequent Refactorings
In my previous post, I demonstrated that even with a lowered cost of change curve, change is still expensive. But, you might say, OK, we agree with that, so we’ll try to do more up front analysis and try to … Continue reading
A Flattened Cost of Change Curve: An economic analysis
Much has been written about how a lowered cost of change curve is a benefit. And it certainly is a benefit. However, change is still costly, in terms of both time and money, even with this lowered cost of change. … Continue reading
Let’s stop calling Scrum, Agile, XP, etc, “Best” Practices
Let’s stop calling Scrum, Agile, XP, etc, “Best” Practices Let’s instead call them what they are: Practices
Posted in .net, agile, c#, cio, cto, scrum, software evelopment, Uncategorized
Tagged .net, agile, c#, cio, cto, design patterns, extreme programming, java, scrum, xp
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Silverlight 2 Controls Demo Updated to run on Release to World Version of Silverlight 2
I have updated the Silverlight 2 Controls Demo to run on the Release version of Silverlight 2. If you have been trying to run the old b2 demo on the Microsoft site and have been unable to since updating your … Continue reading
New Cassini for Framework 3.5
Cassini is a stand-alone web server that you can use to deploy your ASP.NET web applications. Cassini has been updated by it’s author to now run as a single .exe without needing to be deployed in the GAC! This is … Continue reading
Agile & Waterfall are two sides of the exact same Coin
Agile & Waterfall are two sides of the exact same Coin, and are equally good or bad. Some Agile enthusiasts enjoy lambasting waterfall while espousing “Agile”, however the two techniques have many similarities — they both represent extreme ends of … Continue reading
Posted in agile, software architecture
Tagged .net, agile, c#, extreme programming, java, xp
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