Agile Alliance Newsletter Vol 4

This Agile Alliance Newsletter has many interesting articles on Agile development, including several on

Agile applied to Embedded Software.

  • Dan Pierce --- Agile Embedded: The Ground Floor
  • Nancy Van Schooenderwoert --- “Transitioning To XP In Embedded Environments
  • James Grenning --- Progress Before Hardware
  • Bill Greene --- Using Agile Testing Methods To Validate Firmware

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Here is the table of contents with many Agile topics

  • 4 Steve Berczuk, “Agile Foundations”
  • 7 Mike Cohn, “Best Practices”
  • 8 Giovanni Asproni, “ Motivation, Teamwork, and Agile Development”
  • 16 Paul Oldfield, “Mix and Match: Making Sense of the Best Practices Jigsaw”
  • 20 Tim Bacon, “Asking Effective Questions: Collaborative Problem-Solving”
  • 22 Diana Larsen, “Team Agility: Exploring Self-Organizing Software Teams”
  • 25 J.B. Rainsberger, “Write Tests Your Customers Can Read WIth FIT and FitNesse” 28 Marc Clifton, “Unit Test Patterns”
  • 37 Brad Appleton, “Extreme Locality”
  • 40 Martha Lindeman, Ph.D., “The Four Ways to Organize a User Interface”
  • 41 Raghu Misra, “Agile Distributed Teams”
  • 45 Kent McDonald, “The Pragmatic Project Leader”
  • 49 Mike Griffiths, “DSDM Ten Years On: RAD Relic Or Agile Advocate?” 52 Barbara Roberts, “The Unpredictable Element: People”
  • 54 Barry Fazackerley, “The Business Case for the Business Study”
  • 55 Marco Abis, “Agile Europe”
  • 56 Cliff Gregory, “Is ‘Objective Measurement’ The Key To Accepting Agile?”
  • 59 Martin Fowler, “Design In Agile Process”
  • 61 Scott Bogartz, “Selling Agility to Senior Management”
  • 64 Michael Ivey, “Scrum Success Stories”
  • 65 Scott Bogartz, “Agile Methods: The Tao of Software Development”
  • 68 Brian Marick, “Testing Tips”
  • 69 Dan Pierce, “Agile Embedded: The Ground Floor”
  • 72 Nancy Van Schooenderwoert, “Transitioning To XP In Embedded Environments” 74 James Grenning, “Progress Before Hardware”
  • 79 Bill Greene, “Using Agile Testing Methods To Validate FIrmware”
  • 81 Mel Pullen, “Hard Questions For Hard Projects”
  • 88 Lisa Crispin, “Implementing Agile”
  • 89 Boris Gloger, “Sociology And People”
  • 89 Linda Rising, “Patterns For Introducing New Ideas Into Organizations” 91 Boris Gloger, “Computer Programming Is A Social Activity”
  • 96 Andy Winskill, “Introducing The Agile Enterprise”
  • 97 Alan Francis, “Thoughts From Thoughtworks”
  • 97 Mike Cohn, “Book Corner”
  • 98 Deborah Hartmann, “Book Review: Slack”

Published: February 01, 2004