Welcome to the latest edition of the Carnival of the Agilists, the blogroll that skims the cream from the top of the agile blogsphere. This week’s theme is: a bumper bag of liquorice allsorts… Brian Marick has posted the transcript of his OOPSLA talk in several parts. Part 3 discusses Pasteur’s attempts to educate the… [Read more…]
September 6, 2007
Welcome to the latest edition of the Carnival of the Agilists, the blogroll that takes an oblique slice through current events in the agile blogsphere. This week’s theme is: visualization… First up is Kenji Hiranabe’s InfoQ article entitled Visualizing Agile Projects using Kanban Boards. Hiranabe describes and explores a number of different ways of visualizing… [Read more…]
August 25, 2007
The latest edition of the Carnival is now available, edited this time around by Mark Levison. The theme of this edition is the Agile2007 conference, and Mark presents a detailed round-up of conference reports from around the agile blogsphere – essential reading for folks like me who were too busy vacationing to be able to… [Read more…]
August 5, 2007
John Brothers has posted the latest edition of the Carnival, entitled I’m running late. This is a perennial topic for all software development projects, and doubly so for those of us who take a lean or TOC view of productivity and change, so props to John for bringing that focus to the carnival this time… [Read more…]
July 20, 2007
The latest edition of the Carnival is brought to you by Pete Behrens, with a distinctively “management” flavour. And having myself been called an Agile Nazi – and worse – I gained some support from the posts I had missed first time around, particularly Julie Brooks’ Who Coaches the Coach?. The next Carnival is due… [Read more…]
July 6, 2007
Brian Marick emailed me to ask whether the Carnival has an RSS feed. The simple answer is ‘no’, but there are several services around that will allow you to subscribe to a search for Carnival of the Agilists articles – Technorati or Google, for example. In fact, either of these is likely to be more… [Read more…]
July 5, 2007
This latest edition of the Carnival focuses on what is rapidly becoming a cornerstone of agile methods: Test-Driven Development. Or Test-Driven Design if you prefer. Or Example-Driven Development. Or Behaviour-Driven Development. First up, Jeremy Miller discusses Designing for Testability: “I have yet to see a codebase that wasn’t built with TDD that was easy to… [Read more…]
June 23, 2007
The latest Carnival is now available, a bumper edition edited this time by Mark Levison. Mark has highlighted a wide variety of material, and I particularly enjoyed the sections on solo working and the use of agile methods outside of software development. Well worth a read. The next edition will appear here in the first… [Read more…]
June 8, 2007
John Brothers has edited the latest edition of the Carnival, in which you can find a brief digest of recent events in the agile blogosphere. Well worth a read, as always – and make sure you have your sticky buddy to hand…
May 19, 2007
Pete Behrens has edited the latest edition of the carnival, which includes links to a nicely balanced pot-pourri of recent agile and post-agile blog posts. I’m particularly pleased that Pete has highlighted Esther Derby’s reminder of the lean principle that we must always focus on optimising the whole system, and not be distracted by creating… [Read more…]
I'm Kevin Rutherford, from Macclesfield in the UK. I'm an independent agile software coach and mentor, specialising in test-driven development, agile, lean and the theory of constraints.
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