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I’ve been thinking about the problem of integrating existing LDAP user profiles into the XPlanner domain model. This is something that has been requested from users with large-scale XPlanner installations. The challenge is how to make the domain model easily and uniformly accessible to the XPlanner code when it’s partitioned across a combination of relational [...]
“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.” — Alfred Adler David J. Anderson has recently stated the opinion that trust is the essence of agile development methods. He says that trust is more of what agile is all about than short feedback loops and a focus on [...]
XPlanner was originally developed to support a distributed XP team. This team had been using note cards successfully for over a year but a key stakeholder had been required to travel extensively and they wanted to monitor the development progress. Later, we used XPlanner as part of a larger tool suite to support distributed developer [...]
Have you worked on a project with multiple customers representing multiple customer roles? For example, there may be a product manager role, a customer support role, a system operator/administrator role, and so on. I’ve seen this happen several times. The stories might also be conceptually organized into new features and technical debt (including refactoring and [...]
While doing some reading on the topic of search and rescue (SAR) I found the focus on agility and tool acquisition to be very interesting and very similar to what has worked for me in the software development domain. The following text is a paraphrase of several paragraphs from the book, “Fundamentals of Search and [...]