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An Agile Flash Card Deck

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

This blog has been very interesting. I have definitely not read all of the posts, and some of the flash cards are more appropriate to our workplace than others, but in general if you have some spare time, this is a good set of things to read about.

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Redesign versus fixing what’s there

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Robert Martin has written another article. There is a lot of truth in what he’s said in it. I like how he cuts through to reality.

Big Redesign in the Sky

I am about to dig into FlexScheduler again to add some features. I’ve written a few other Flex apps since then and I’d [...]

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Estimation advice from the trenches

Monday, July 7th, 2008

This is a good article about estimating User Stories.  I think that it is worth the 5 minutes or so to read, although nothing is totally new.

The author recommends a much smaller scale.  Actually just 4 numbers (1, 2, 4, and 8).  I’m not sure it is worth changing from our practice but his points [...]

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