Tag Archives: Agile

How can 21apps make your day better?

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Ant Clay

After a stack of research, deep thinking, lots of tea and coffee and a stack of customer conversations we’ve developed a whole new breed of exciting and innovative services designed for: Making your working day better for you, your colleagues, your … Continue reading →

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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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Requirements–we don’t need them!

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Andrew Woodward

The thing I love about twitter is that we get to have great conversations with people who are passionate about a subject in the same way we would over a beer.  Take for example the conversation I stumbled upon on … Continue reading →

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Announcing 21Scrum – Scrum for SharePoint

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Andrew Woodward

Update 21 June 2010:  We are pleased to annouce the 21Scrum has been released.   Please visit www.21Scrum.com for more details and to get your copy. Having been an advocate of SharePoint and Agile development for some time I have always … 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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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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Doing Agile in a Team of One

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Andrew Woodward

If your the only member of the team is it really worth going through the same agile development process that you would in a team of eight? Isn’t it quicker to just crack open Visual Studio and start coding?   After … Continue reading →

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Introducing Project Aberdovey: Scrum for SharePoint

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Andrew Woodward

UPDATE:  Project Aberdovey is now live and called 21SCRUM Download a trial from www.21scrum.com Being an advocate of SharePoint as an application platform I looked long and hard for a decent implementation of a Scrum and have always been found … Continue reading →

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Improve you SharePoint code with Red Gate ANTS

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Andrew Woodward

As development practices around the SharePoint platform mature the demands for better quality and better performing solutions are being made.  Gone are the days when Enterprises will accept that the Roll-Up Web Part they purchased will not scale beyond a … Continue reading →

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Best Practices: Test Driven Development with SharePoint Slide Deck

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Andrew Woodward

In contrast to the Agile SharePoint development with Scrum session this was very light on the slides.  In good Agile tradition I adopted a Pair Programming approach with me at the keyboard and the audience been my code buddy.  Everyone … Continue reading →

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