Agile

When I review an approach, I find it helpful to distill it to a simple frame so I can get a bird’s-eye view.  For MSF Agile, I found the most useful frame to be the workstreams and key activities.  According to MSF, workstreams are simply groups of activities that flow logically together and are usually …

I like to be able to scan process methodologies so I create skeletal views that let me quickly see the key activities, artifacts, principles, and practices of a methodology.  MSF for Agile Software Development is a scenario-driven, context-based, agile software development process.   Here’s are notes on MSF Agile circa 2005, which might be somewhat dated, …

I’m a fan of simple maps to help drill in. After all, it’s hard to explore the concepts if you don’t know they exist, or you don’t know what they are called.  Below is a work in progress.  I’m making a quick, simple map of the key activities from some software project-relevant processes. I’m sure …

“Each of the practices still has the same weaknesses as before, but what if those weaknesses were now made up for by the strengths of other practices? We might be able to get away with doing things simply.” – Kent Beck Extreme Programming (XP) has been around a while, but not everybody knows “what it …

When I first learned eXtreme Programming (XP), my mentors introduced it using four circles.  I really liked how the four circles made it easy to remember the XP practices, and I liked how it made them easier to remember.  This post is a walkthrough of the four circles of XP. The Four Circles of XP …