The Random Musings

InfoQ: Nils Haugen on Planning Poker
Brief interview with an XP developer on planning poker and its use for getting team estimates for stories.
(tags: agile video planning estimation)

Adam Petersen – Software Development Pages
Article to read about Design & TDD
(tags: agile design development methodology tdd testing)

WEP de facto key generator
Useful site to generate hex WEP keys from [...]

Facebook Developers | Documentation
Development documentation starting point for Facebook.
(tags: api book development documentation facebook programming reference)

Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive 12 Ways to Use Facebook Professionally «
Article to show how facebook can be used in a professional way (i.e. not home use).
(tags: articles facebook howto social web2.0 Work)

9 Ways to Build Your Own Social Network
Article on building social networks of your own. Possibly worth reading to glean something [...]

Innovel, LLC » Articles
Launch point to get to a paper written on metrics and diagnostics for agile teams. Also provides a link to a “thinking tool” for creating and evaluating agile metrics and diagnostics.
(tags: agile development metrics diagnostics)

Imagine if you setup a configuration within Mule to use Twitter as a message bus.  Endpoints could be registered friends, and you could use either general broadcasts or direct messaging to route data to the right points.
Somewhat foolish, but effectively the pattern that services like Remember the milk (RTM) and facebook are using to get [...]

Facebook Ruby
Ruby libraries for the facebook APIs.
(tags: api ruby facebook library)

Facebook | Home
Facebook landing page
(tags: facebook social community networking friends web2.0)

Mylyn Integrator Reference – Eclipsepedia
Documentation on how to create a new Mylyn connector.
(tags: documentation mylyn mylar eclipse plugin)

John’s Blog: Creating an Mylar Connector Plugin for Jotspot
Instructions on creating a connector with a little more details [...]

 . . . . an alternative title could be “Making Standups Useful Again“.
On the Scrumdevelopment yahoo group there was a thread titled “Changing the Daily Scrum from reporting to problem solving”.  Lasse Koskela responded with an informative post, which also provided a pointer to an article written by Martin Fowler titled “It’s not just standing [...]

[0704.1294] A Disciplined Approach to Adopting Agile Practices: The Agile Adoption Framework
Article on the Agile Adoption Framework
(tags: agile articles framework)

Regardless of the process being employed, at some stage in the process the people who are authorizing the project need some confirmation that things are progressing well.  This basically means providing transparency on project scope, resources, quality and schedule.
Scope – What is being built?Resources – Who is building it?Quality – How well is it being [...]

InfoQ has another great interview in their Agile track with Michael Spayd and Joseph Little on “Agile and Organizational Change”.  It provides some insight into what other consultants and organizations are going through with respect to driving agile adoption within their companies.  It serves as a refreshing look at ways that these adoptions have managed [...]