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Agile Best Practice (3 of 10) - Measure and Frequently Repay Technical Debt

By Raj Anantharaman (Intel) (5 posts) on May 29, 2009 at 12:51 am
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Technical Debt is a popular term amongst Agile practitioners. Ward Cunningham characterizes technical debt as follows: Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite.... The danger occurs when the debt is not repaid. Every minute spent on not-quite-right [...]

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Agile Best Practice (2 of 10) - Build Dashboard Monitor (for Continuous Integration)

By Raj Anantharaman (Intel) (5 posts) on May 10, 2009 at 9:16 pm
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Continuous Integration is one of the core / vital practices in Agile Methodology. Just like the practice says -> this practice is all about frequent integration of code during development phases, rather than integrating towards the end, so that issues are caught much earlier in the development lifecycle than later. In this practice, the software [...]

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Agile Best Practice (1 of 10) - Provide an Agile working space for the team

By Raj Anantharaman (Intel) (5 posts) on May 5, 2009 at 2:27 am
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In this series of blogs related to how we improved the maturity of our Agile practices, I'll share with you 10 best practices we've practiced / refined in the last 1.5 years. Providing an Agile workspace is an extremely important step in adopting Agile SW Development methodology in your team. An Agile workspace is defined [...]

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Embracing Change - an Intel Team's Adoption of Agile Practices

By Raj Anantharaman (Intel) (5 posts) on April 21, 2009 at 7:56 pm
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OK, like I promised in my previous blog, here is my first post on our team's Agile adoption journey with many more posts on best practices to come in the next few weeks. Our team is a cross-geo team - made up of a development / engineering team in Bangalore and business stakeholders / program [...]

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Agile Software Development Practices

By Raj Anantharaman (Intel) (5 posts) on April 20, 2009 at 1:21 am
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Agile practices have become quite popular amongst software development teams world-wide. Even within Intel, there are many teams starting to adopt and practice Agile in a big way. I am part of one such team and we've been practicing Agile for the last 2 years now and have realized amazingly positive benefits like improved team [...]

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