Link Roundup

• Quality-Speed Tradeoff — You’re kidding yourself: Ron Jeffries on the quality vs. speed argument
• The Pomodoro Technique
• Agile in a Flash: Agile Reference in the form of flashcards, with explanations and comments
• Clean Code Grades: Clean Code Developer Grade system is a graduated collection of principles, rules and practices which a software professional can use to produce "cleaner" code. It is based partly on the contents of the book Clean Code by Robert C. Martin.
• Kanban, Flow and Cadence
• Burndowns and Flareups in Agile Design
  

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• Announcing Trinidad: In-process test runner for FitNesse wiki pages
• Rake Stats: How to log Rails 'rake stats' command output over time and add extensions to it into CruiseControl
  
• Clarke Ching's "Rocks into Gold": a biztech parable for software developers who want to Survive - and then Thrive – through the Credit Crunch.
  
• Hiring Software Developers: The Agile Aptitude Test
• Agile Payback: The adoption of agile programming methods has proved one of the most effective and popular strategies of the past year
• Anthrax and Standups: Slightly old but relevant post from Brian Marick on story-based standups
• Playgrounds & a Thought on Testing

Link roundup

• Retrospective facilitation -- John Wilger
• Kanban introduction -- Eric Landes (podcast)
• "How we develop software at Socialtext" (video)
• Getting Real About Agile Design
• Working through Screens (ebook on user interaction)
• Agile Philanthropy
  

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Product Ownership

• Becoming a Great Scrum Product Owner (eBook)

Testing

• Bridging the Communication Gap: Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing (book)
• JNarrate: Tool that allows you to write acceptance tests with code using a fluent API
• Craft of Software blog: Matt Heusser's new blog for testers
• Software Craftsmanship: Google group
  

Best Practices

• Linda Rising podcast on Retrospectives
• Kanban and Retrospectives
  

Agile

• “Seven Years Later: What the Agile Manifesto Left Out” presentation by Brian Marick at Agile Development Practices

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Methodology:

• Scrum-ban

User experience:

• Five-second test
• Agile Usability, George Dinwiddie’s blog
• Getting Agile with user-centered design
  

Programming:

• Reusability vs. Usability: Where to Draw the Line?
• Will the holidays create discipline debt?
  

Testing:

• Simple strategies to keep quality visible

Conferences:

• CITCON 2009

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Product ownership:

• A Product Needs an Owner

Agile adoption:

• Little Scrum Pigs and the Big, Bad Wolf

Testing:

• Best Practices for Implementing Automated Functional Testing Solutions
• ATDD: An Overview
  

Tools:

• Choosing a code-coverage tool
  

Reference:

• RDocul.us: All Ruby Docs, always up to date!

Conferences:

• StarEast 2009
• Software Craftsmanship 2009