Tag Archives: Agile

Best Practices: Agile SharePoint Development with Scrum Slide Deck

Posted on February 8, 2009 by Andrew Woodward

As promised the slide deck from my Agile SharePoint Development with Scrum. Abstract Provide an introduction to Agile development using Scrum and discuss how the iterative approach to development helps the customer to get the solution they want. Look at … Continue reading →

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TDD in SharePoint – Introduction to common vocabulary

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Andrew Woodward

This post is part of a series on Test Driven Development – Using Dependency Injection There are a number of terms that you are likely to hear very early on in your journey to Test Driven Development, these terms generally … Continue reading →

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Does TDD speed up development?

Posted on December 14, 2008 by Andrew Woodward

Scott Bellware posted a great article on what is often one of the main reasons for people dropping or never starting TDD or Unit Testing; often stating ‘It takes longer doing TDD’ and ‘I can code this much quicker without … Continue reading →

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Why SDLC is always needed in SharePoint projects

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Andrew Woodward

Adam Buenz is a scarily clever guy;  if your into improving your development approach and work with SharePoint you have to spare a few minutes to read and digest this. Quote: The point I am trying to drive home is … Continue reading →

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"Test Driven" SharePoint Development

Posted on April 14, 2007 by Andrew Woodward

Spender Harber posted a recent article “Test Driven” SharePoint Development …a first stab at providing some guidance for those looking to implement SDL approaches to SharePoint, and a call to action for the developer community to adopt “Test Driven” SharePoint … Continue reading →

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Working through Agile Web Development with Rails – Part 4

Posted on December 10, 2006 by Andrew Woodward

..continued from part 3 Section 9 Playtime – Page 139 The last task is to add a link to each item and remove it from the cart. It is suggested that you do this in a non-Ajax way first and … Continue reading →

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Working through Agile Web Development with Rails – Part 3

Posted on December 8, 2006 by Andrew Woodward

continued in part 4… .. continued from part 2 Iteration D3: Highlight Changes This error had me stumped for a while, although it did force me to read through and really understand how the code was working. Something I have … Continue reading →

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RubyOnRails – A newbie introduction

Posted on December 1, 2006 by Andrew Woodward

First Impression Wow! That was easy! After doing the normal Google -> Review -> Google some more process I was left with a long list of things to look at and also some other examples of people who have been … Continue reading →

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Moving out from the Microsoft Umbrella

Posted on November 23, 2006 by Andrew Woodward

Having developed software on the Microsoft platform since VB3 and before I have always like the way that as a developer things just worked, you click install and it does it all. I did flirt with Java before .Net came … Continue reading →

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