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Design documents as part of Agile
At my workplace, we face a challenge in that "agile" too often has meant "vague requirements, bad acceptance criteria, good luck!" We're trying to address that, as a general improvement effort. So, ...
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Extreme Programming - documenting implementation?
In extreme programming methodology, what artifacts/ can be used to document the implementation?
I have used an activity diagram to document the design steps for each activity. I have read that for ...
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How to get good design when using agile methods?
I have been using an agile methodology (SCRUM) for about three years now and I see certain advantages to it, especially in the short-term feedback at many levels (from customers having early access to ...
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What is the best way to approach visualization projects?
I work on several areas related to information visualization, linked data, computer vision and other stuff, so mainly front-end. I am not really happy with the fact that visualizations take lots of ...
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Agile development : How to design your code for an iteration / Sprint?
In Agile development you work on small user stories and produce a working iteration.
But what happens when the next user story comes in and affects the design for the already done iteration?
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What do you do if you reach a design dead-end in evolutionary methods like Agile or XP?
As I was reading Martin Fowler's famous blog post Is Design Dead?, one of the striking impressions I got is that given the fact that in Agile Methodology and Extreme Programming, the design as well as ...
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Who should be responsible for writing/updating design specifications in an agile team
I work as part of a scrum-like Agile team and a while ago, one thing we identified that the team should do is maintain good set of design documents for our code base. Because we are agile and do have ...
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How a .NET dev team should be designing and delivering greenfield projects? [closed]
Some of the hottest topics in the software world atm are:
Domain-Driven Design
SOLID principles
Agile methodologies
ORM
Now assuming that you are not currently using all of these in your team, ...
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Steps to take to create the Product Backlog for starting our project with Scrum
A small team (3 or 4) are working on a fairly big project that might take 1 year to complete.
We are basically re-designing an existing software (that had been developer over 5-6 years while being ...
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How do you make a manager understand Agile?
I have a problem with a senior director who doesn't understand iterative development (much less Agile). He is insistent that our software design specification (SDS) be complete before any line of code ...
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Office design and layout for agile development
(moved from stackoverflow)
I have found lot of discussions here on about which keyboard, desk, light or colored background is best - but I can't find one addressing the layout of the whole office.
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What modelling technique do you use for your continuous design?
Together with my teammates, I'm trying to self-learn XP and apply its principles.
We're successfully working in TDD and happily refactoring our code and design. However we're having problems with the ...
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Where do I start to learn systems analysis?
Though I learned Systems Analysis in college, I feel like I am out of date. All I really remember is certain aspects of the SDLC which I realize is a little passé. I've been on the implementation end ...
