Category Archives: Agile

I’m the business and agile was my idea

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Andrew Woodward

I’ve been brought up on trying to improve the way I develop software, starting from ISO9001 and TickIT and the formalities this tended to promote through Xtreme Programming (XP), Agile, Lean, Scrum.  What has been great is that I have … Continue reading →

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Interviewed by Typemock

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Andrew Woodward

At the recent SharePoint Conference in Vegas I took a few minutes out to talk to Gil Zilberfeld of Typemock about what 21apps is doing with SharePoint and what I see as the next steps in the community regarding SharePoint … Continue reading →

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TDD Kata – By Example video

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Andrew Woodward

Since attending Roy Osherove’s TDD Master Class I have been doing my daily TDD Kata, I will admit I have missed some days but generally I have been keeping up with it and really seeing the benefit. Here I talked … Continue reading →

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Which Build Servers in SharePoint – The Results

Posted on October 11, 2009 by Andrew Woodward

The numbers are in and I think this small sample really gives a good view as to the way people are approaching their SharePoint development projects. Numbers taken from a one week poll asking people which build servers they used … Continue reading →

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Which build server are you using?

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Andrew Woodward

I am looking to provide some guidance on doing Continuous Integration (CI) on SharePoint projects,  looking at the concepts behind CI but also looking to provide examples that can help people get the most out of CI on a SharePoint project.   … Continue reading →

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What to learn TDD?

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Andrew Woodward

If you’ve read my blog you’ll know that I am a fan of Test Driven Development and an avid user of Typemock Isolator, specifically for the hard to test SharePoint code.   If you’re not sure of the benefits of doing … Continue reading →

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In Washington DC in Aug – We should talk!

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Andrew Woodward

OK the title does sound like a bad attempt at a pickup line, but I really mean we should talk.  I was honoured to have been asked back to talk at the Best Practices Conference in August which is my … Continue reading →

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TDD and SharePoint is it worth doing?

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Andrew Woodward

Just read a post by Sahil Malik where he gives his reasons for saying TDD + SharePoint 2007? Well – screw it! Not worth it IMO. The reason for his statement is that he sees the actual C# code developed … Continue reading →

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Measuring velocity is not enough

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Andrew Woodward

Scrum as an agile approach is great, it allows teams to get up to speed quickly with agile and also enable the business to understand what being agile means.  The problem is that people often just do Scrum.  Doing Scrum … Continue reading →

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Doing Agile in a Team of One – Day 2 and the End of Sprint 1

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Andrew Woodward

I recently wrote about my experience of doing agile development in a team of one,  where I questioned the idea that ‘If your the only member of the team is it really worth going through the same agile development process … Continue reading →

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