Making Documents Lean

You are on agile project but anyway you need to deliver documentation.

Read short summary and if you have time read the original post linked from this summarized post.

The Best Agile Practices to Implement Now

There are some agile practices that can significantly improve productivity of team and you can introduce those practices at almost no cost.
Those practices (list is for sure not complete) are:

• A proper team room
• Short iterations
• Test driven development

Original post you can read here.

Hibernate cannot dereference scalar collection element

Hibernate cannot dereference scalar collection element or how to query property that is of Set type of mapped class with hibernate.

My problem seemed simple. I had following class:

class Subordinate {
String id;
Set superiors;
}

This class was mapped with two tables. All I needed is to get all subordinates of superior with some id. When reading documentation it turn out to be easy if my set of superiors was not set of simple types. And I have spent some time on this until I found exact answer on this blog: http://jdwyah.blogspot.com/2006/09/hibernate-cannot-dereference-scalar.html

Ten Common Mistakes of Going Agile

Have a look at ten common mistakes when companies introducing agile methodologies. Complete link is here.

Agile Project Management

In agile software development everything is specified how to produce software reliably with minimum number of bugs.
But what about agile project management. Delivering software has nothing with project management. Is project management only legacy of the old development styles or we need project management also for agile projects. What is you opinion. Original post is: http://www.agile-software-development.com/2008/05/agile-project-management.html

View Public Stats for Thousands of Web Sites

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SCRUM Quickly!

Very short introduction of Scrum for those can want to find out what Scrum is. At the end of post there are links that can provide much more details for those interested. The link to the real post is http://www.jroller.com/vtatai/entry/an_introduction_to_scrum

Keeping Sight of the Bigger Picture

As we know heart of the agile software development are small iterations, user stories, unit testing, delivering small parts of functionalities. When everything is so small you can easily forget big picture. So for sure you must take care about big picture.
Mored details you can find in this blog post Keeping Sight of the Bigger Picture.

How Agile Works in a Nutshell

Very nice comparison how one imaginary project would run on classical waterfall methodology and how it would run on agile methodology.

It is nice not long description but hits the point. Full post is here.