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Load Test Your Website Before Your Customers Do

When you release a website or web application, it’s going to face a lot of very public load testing. If it performs poorly, there’s a good chance that you’re going to lose a lot of customers. Colin Mason offers some tips for load testing in order to ensure a better customer experience.

Colin  Mason's picture Colin Mason
Five Steps to Creating Effective Agile Contracts

While using an agile approach for projects that involve outside parties can be complex, especially during an audit; living documents and early involvement by all parties involved will help ensure a worry-free process. Learn how expert planning allows for the right path to emerge on its own.

TechWell Contributor's picture TechWell Contributor
Orders of Magnitude in Test Automation Orders of Magnitude in Test Automation

Mike Kelly explains the following heuristic approach to help ensure your testing is roughly inline based on orders of magnitude across the various types of automation. It’s not a method for measuring effectiveness. Instead it’s simply a “smell” to tell you when you might need to take a little extra time to make sure you’re focusing your automated testing efforts at the right level.

Mike Kelly's picture Mike Kelly
AgileDC Conference - Organizer Podcast at Agile2011
Podcast

Come join us at AgileDC on October 26th 2011. This not for profit regional conference aims to have a wide variety of talks, networking, open space, and is one of the few conferences to have a Government track alongside an Agile Engineering track.

Bob Payne's picture Bob Payne
Dependable vs. Irreplaceable

We all like being in demand, feeling wanted, and being dependable. But, we forget that there is a thin line between being dependable and irreplaceable. The result is not only a loss of credibility but also a loss of opportunities

Rinku Sahay's picture Rinku Sahay
Product complexity and opportunity to rearchitect and refactor Do You Need Titled Architects for Your Agile Programs?

Johanna Rothman received a variety of responses to her recent writing on agile architecture. In this article, she attempts to clarify her case for having an architect on some—but not all—agile programs, depending on a number of factors.

Johanna Rothman's picture Johanna Rothman
Are the Five CEO Temptations Limiting Your Leadership Potential?

Becoming a CEO isn’t the ultimate goal for the most successful CEOs. It is a status that they use to achieve great things, and they face ongoing temptations that threaten their potential. Here, Laura Brandenburg takes a look at the temptations in Patrick Lencioni’s Five Temptations of a CEO that can limit the potential of not only CEOs, but also anyone in a leadership position.

Laura Brandenburg's picture Laura Brandenburg
photo from pair programming sessions Pair Programming in the Clink

In this personal experience story, Daryl Kulak relates the day he spent behind bars. He was there to participate in a program that pairs prisoners with software developers “from the outside” to explore the art and science of agile software development. “It’s like a code retreat,” Kulak notes, “except it’s inside a prison.”

Daryl  Kulak's picture Daryl Kulak
How Do Agile Rapid Iterations Improve Software Quality?

An iterative agile approach improves the quality and production time for software projects of all scope and size. Learn how this "evolutionary" method improves both development and testing through open lines of communication and collaboration.

TechWell Contributor's picture TechWell Contributor
Path to Agility 2011 - Ken Schwaber - Scrum and the Product Owner
Podcast

Ken Schwaber and Bob Payne chat about the product owner (PO) roll and the complexity that can emerge when we ask too much of the product owner. This has always been a key role and we have sometimes dode the project a disservice by focusing the PO on the needs of development.

Bob Payne's picture Bob Payne

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