I was honored to be the guest editor of a special issue of Better Software magazine that was focused on agile software development. This is my introduction to the issue (July/August 2004) in which I…
This article was written for the Scrum Alliance soapbox. It presents an initial collection of Scrum smells or indicators that things may be amiss on a Scrum project.
The transition from a plan-driven to an agile process affects not only the development team members, but also other teams, departments, and management. In this article we describe common pitfalls and…
Over the years we've come up with many useful database development techniques. This article describes two we use to make sure that an application and its intended database stay synchronized.
