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Branching Strategies: The Cost Of Branching And Merging

Branching and merging are never free operations. Even if you are using a source control system that makes the mechanical process of branching and merging negligible, there are other costs that need to be accounted for than just the button clicks or commands...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2010 10:22 AM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Productivity, Branch-Per-Feature, Source Control, Test Automation, Branching Strategies

Are We Continuously Improving Or Just Continuously Changing?

Don’t confuse activity – even when it has a visible, measurable effect – with productivity. Without a clear picture of where we are going and why, our best efforts at improvement (though they may be ‘continuous’ efforts) are likely to be change for the...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2010 6:14 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Management, Lean Systems, Productivity, Coaching, Kaizen

Albacore AssemblyInfo Task vs. Nant Assembly Info Generator

Here’s one of the reasons I like Rake and my custom Rake tasks that I’m building into Albacore , so much. To generate some assembly information such as version, company name, copyright, etc., you need to do this with nant: 1: <? xml version ="1...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2009 11:06 AM by derick.bailey

Filed under: .NET, Rake, Ruby, Productivity, Albacore

How To Get Started With Selenium Core And ASP.NET MVC

About a year and a half ago, my team and I tried to get some WaitiN UI tests up and running. We got some basic tests working on our local machines after a while, but we were never able to get them to run correctly in our CruiseControl.NET CI server. We...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2009 3:02 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: .NET, Quality, Productivity, Selenium, Test Automation, Model-View-Controller

Kanban In Time-Boxes: The Cadence of WIP and Sprints

A comment that was left on a previous post , and a response that I made to the comment, got me thinking about Kanban and time boxes such as Sprints or Iterations some more. As I stated in my response, I don’t think time boxes are “not Lean”, at this point...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2009 5:02 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Agile, Management, Lean Systems, Kanban, Workflow, Productivity, Metrics

A Response to 5 Right Reasons to Apply Kanban

Michael Dubakov has a couple of great posts over at TargetProcess on 5 Wrong Reasons To Apply Kanban and 5 Reasons To Apply Kanban . I started to post this as a comment in response to his 5 Reasons To Apply Kanban, but the size of the comment got a little...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2009 10:56 AM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Management, Kanban, Quality, Workflow, Theory Of Constraints, Productivity, Metrics

How To Get Started With Kanban In Software Development

There’s a lot of great talk around the inter-weber-net-o-sphere on why Kanban works in software development, how to do specific details of Kanban, how to effectively talk about it, and other such subjects. If you’re interested in a great set of resources...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2009 5:41 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Agile, Retrospectives, Management, Lean Systems, Kanban, Quality, Throughput, Workflow, Productivity

Branch-Per-Feature Source Control. Part 1: Why

Several years ago, I started using source control systems to store all of my code. It was a life saver. I was no longer worried about losing changes that I had made. Then a few years ago, I found Subversion . It was a god-send compared to visual source...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2009 5:27 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Standardized Work, Management, Continuous Integration, Quality, Git, Workflow, Productivity, Subversion, Branch-Per-Feature, Source Control

Theory Of Constraints: Productivity Metrics in Software Development

In the past, I’ve been a true believer that software development is not really possible to measure from a productivity perspective. I was ignorant, basically. I’m now a bit wiser and I understand that software development is no different than any other...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2009 1:38 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Throughput, E-Books, Theory Of Constraints, Productivity, Metrics

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