I came across an interesting discussion happening in Linked In RoR group with the topic RoR compared with other development platforms..
Lets see how this topic got started, the community opinion and finally my opinion. (more…)

We have recently launched the pre-beta version of Dunnitt (http://www.dunnitt.com). Like how Twitter is for micro-blogging, Dunnitt is for micro-collaboration. You can check the screenshots of Dunnitt at http://www.dunnitt.com/one_minute_manual

Thought I would share here some of the simple things we do while we are working on our Sprint release.
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Recently we saw an advertisement for a Rails Developer contract job in one famous Rails website. The potential client posted a small puzzle in Ruby and asked the potential candidates to solve and apply for it.
We thought we would reply to them in their style itself.
The below code was the email attachment we sent to them. Oops!.. Are we sharing lots of internal secrets.
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I just finished watching the video “Agilists and Architects — Allies not Adversaries” that was presented by Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons during the QCon 2008 San Francisco conference and was published by InfoQ recently.

It was a very interesting presentation and highlights the problems that Architects facing while working on Agile projects. The presenters neatly addresses the problems and the proposes the solutions. (more…)

Recently, there was one cool discussion in eXtreme Programming yahoo group about “Agile People Management”.
Some one raised a question about the concept of line management exisit in Agile and who handles it. In response to that question, Alexandru Palade posted an answer with a link a video by Ricardo Semler. (more…)

Clarke Ching has written a book “Rocks Into Gold Pocket Book“. This book is about a programmer who saves his job, his colleagues’ jobs, and perhaps even his company by using just one agile principle. His project was about to be cancelled due to the recession/credit- crunch and he figured out how agile could help. (more…)

One funny video going around in Internet (Youtube) with the title “The downfall of Agile Hitler”.
If you haven’t watched it yet, do check it out now. (more…)

I usually keep the Scrum Product BackLog (PBL) on an Excel sheet and share it across the project members. It has its own pros and cons.
Some people also use Google docs spreadsheet for the same. I just found (more…)

On 20th April 2009, Venkat Subramaniam will speak on Fallacies of Agile Development at Gandhinagar, Adyar, Chennai.
For registering your free seat, please visit http://chennaiagile.pbwiki.com/20-April-2009-Venkat-Subramaniam.
Hurry, only 21 seat left as of today.

The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (http://msme.gov.in/) would be conducting an one day introductory workshop on Cutting Cost Through “Agile” Software Development Methods, on 20th March 2009 at Chennai.
On behalf of Spritle, I will be presenting a topic on “Releasing Quality Software” during the afternoon session.
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