Agile Chandigarh WorkShop :Is CMMi Agile?

Saturday 17/05/08: Six hours of journey after starting early (very early) in the morning is not that awful when you are looking forward to attend some kind of a “First….”.This adds some extra enthusiasm!! We were three, Saket and Rupal being the other two. Apart from participating we were also embodied the task to propagate [...]

Great Indian Developer’s Summit

Great Indian Developers Summit was held from may 21-23 at Banglore, India Around 3,000 developers attended it. This is supposed to be the biggest developer’s summit so far in India. http://www.developersummit.com/ Climate was very good in Banglore despite the summers in India. Many reputed speakers around the world were there to give their presentations. It [...]

Book Review: Adobe AIR for Javascript Developers

I was trying to learn Adobe AIR and was looking for some good set of learning resources. I found the book “Adobe AIR for Javascript Developers” from Oreilly by and started reading it online. A cool book, the authors have done great job on presenting the topics as an easilit readable pocket guide. Soon after [...]

Agile way of documentation!!!

As you enter into Agile world, a statement welcomes you – “Just do enough documentation”. For quite sometime, I was puzzled what we really mean by this. In my view “just-enough” is very ambiguous or abstract. You cannot quantify it. For some who are working for a development project, creating documentation may not make much [...]

TDD vs good design/architecture principles

Sometimes back there was an interesting debate between Agile manifesto founder member Bob Martin and renowned Jim Coplien about the relevance of good design principles in TDD based development. Jim had very thought provoking views about what people do in the name of TDD and when it leads to something where it’s just impossible to [...]