Articles on Process
Carbon Five at SXSW 2010
We’re planning our return to Austin for the South by Southwest interactive conference with a session we have put together with the folks at Aardvark. Titled The Experiment is the Product: Innovation through Iteration, Rob Spiro and I are going to break down how we merged our Agile software development practices with their user-focused and …
assert_changes and assert_no_changes in Ruby
Update: This code and documentation is now available on github: http://github.com/ndp/assert_changes/tree/master The Problem On our work on gobalto.com, we spend time to have good fixture data for our tests– data that can represent all the important application states that our tests require. As a result, our tests are very dependent on the data. It’s important …
Twitter transcript for our #agileux20 panel at Web 2.0 Expo
I grabbed Twitter search results for our #agileux20 hashtag so we don’t lose them later. Thanks everyone for your interest, comments and questions. Unlike Twitter search, these tweets are listed oldest to most recent so you can read them as a transcript of our panel. .item_published { color: gray; font-size: .8em;} div.item { line-height:1.4em; margin: …
Join Us at Web 2.0 Expo
Maria Giudice from Hot Studio and I are following up our Core Conversation at SXSW last month on agile development and human-centered design with a panel Thursday at 11am at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco titled Can’t We Just All Get Along? Human-centered Design Meets Agile Development. Our panel includes Arena Reed, Lead User …
Agile Modeling Techniques for Story Writing
At Carbon Five, all our projects begin with ‘customer facing’ meetings focused around determining scope and expectations. A core component of these early meetings involves one or more story writing sessions. The end goal of story writing sessions is to have most user stories in a project documented (i.e. in Pivotal Tracker) regardless of whether …
When Worlds Collide: Conversation with Maria Giudice of Hot Studio
Maria and I have already started our SXSW Core Conversation When Worlds Collide: Human Centered Design Meets Agile Development two weeks before the event in Austin. The Core Conversation format is a speaker or two in conversation with the audience. Below we respond to a few select questions. About the Presenters Maria Guidice is CEO …
Continuous Integration and Build Promotion
We have a build server and we practice continuous integration on all of our projects. In fact, it’s pretty much the first thing we set up after version control. We’re feedback junkies. It became especially apparent while working on a client project last year where we used their development infrastructure. They had a build server …
Carbon Five and Hot Studio at SXSW in March
Maria Giudice from Hot Studio and I are speaking Sunday, March 13 at SXSW on When Worlds Collide: Human Centered Design Meets Agile Development. We’ve worked with Hot on many successful projects over the years. As the name of our session suggests, we find our collaboration continually challenged by the differing perspectives of designer, developer …
Carbon Five and Hot Studio at Web 2.0 Expo in April
Maria Giudice from Hot Studio and I have organized a panel called Can’t We Just All Get Along? Human-centered Design Meets Agile Development for Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco this coming April. How can designers and developers work together in a process that seems to be contradictory in nature — and how does visual …
“We can’t afford to *not* take an agile approach”
We’re spending a couple days next week with developers at one of our clients to practice agile and more specifically test driven development. In preparation I’ve been exchanging emails with one of their leads on what he is hoping they will get out of this time. He’s a great developer who has recently been exposed …