Writing good user stories is one of the most misunderstood and challenging aspects of agile development. In this fast-paced hands on tutorial we’ll bust myths about user stories and leave you with a useful approach for writing and leveraging user stories. You’ll learn the essentials of user-centric story writing, and …
Writing good user stories is one of the most misunderstood and challenging aspects of agile development. In this fast-paced hands on tutorial we’ll bust myths about user stories and leave you with a useful approach for writing and leveraging user stories. You’ll learn the essentials of user-centric story writing, and …
Software is the last large industry to explore Lean Production. To date, most of our Lean experiments have been based on some form of Agile Development. Agile is a great improvement over traditional approaches for many domains. Applying Lean ideas to Agile practices has proven helpful to both technique and …
When we first get into software development, we concentrate on technical skill. We learn how to program, how to debug, and how to design effectively. If we are lucky, we work in an environment where most of that work isn’t wasted effort. Most of us gradually realize that we are …
HBase is the Hadoop database. Use it when you need random, realtime read/write access to your Big Data. HBase ia an open-source, distributed, column-oriented store modeled after the Google paper, Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data by Chang et al. Just as Bigtable leverages the distributed data storage …
This is the keynote given by Neal Ford of ThoughtWorks at the Jazoon 2009 Conference. Blacksmiths in 1900 and PowerBuilder developers in 1996 have something in common: they thought their job was safe forever. Yet circumstances proved them wrong. One of the nagging concerns for developers is how do you …