Here’s a quiz for Agile team members using burndown charts. What does this picture mean? Seems pretty good, right? Work is getting done, pretty close to the ideal line. Nothing to fret over, especially if the mood of the team is good. Now, consider this alternate view of the same team, same sprint: We’re about […]
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This is the content for my Agile2012 presentation. (Download BigDataLittleTests-Heintz) Slides are attached to this post, and these are the GitHub repos: https://github.com/jheintz/sample-hadoop-testing https://github.com/jheintz/sample-riak-testing https://github.com/jheintz/riak-download Here are the scripts that demonstrate everything: Hadoop Sample: #/bin/sh git clone https://github.com/jheintz/sample-hadoop-testing.git cd sample-hadoop-testing.git git checkout step1 # initial MRUnit tests mvn test # eclipse: show mapper # eclipse: show
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(I’ve re-published this here. Originally published on my old personal blog). I’ve got a bone to pick, so I’ll do it here. This is a problem of mine that I have with both developers(architects) and with analysts(customers). Context: This rant applies to models/designs/architectures of a problem or solution domain. It doesn’t apply to the actual