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Doing Agile After LayoffsYesterday

Part of a development team has been laid off, the team is down to four developers with a part time Scrum Master and no dedicated Product Owner. Is Scrum still applicable? What options are there? How does one adapt? By Mark Levison

Article: Making TDD Stick: Problems and Solutions for AdoptersYesterday

In this article, Mark Levison addresses the difficulties encountered by developers willing to adopt TDD, the reasons why many start using TDD but give up after a short period of time, and what could be done to help developers make TDD a habit. By Abel Avram

New Patches for 1.8.x Fix Memory Leaks And Improve PerformanceJanuary 6

A few patches by Brent Roman promise to fix a long standing issue of memory leaks, particularly for continuations, for Ruby 1.8.x. They also happen to improve performance. By Werner Schuster

Difference Between Internal and External ReleaseJanuary 6

Traditionally, software release is considered to be a handshake between engineering and business where a release made by engineering is passed on to the external world by business. In an interesting article, Israel Gat suggested the reason to split the software release into 'internal' and 'external' release, for the benefit of both engineering and business. By Vikas Hazrati

Code2Plan, a Free Visual Studio Agile Project Management Add-inJanuary 6

Jesse Johnston and Denis Morozov created code2plan, an Agile software project management tool, as a beta Visual Studio add-in and released it for free. The tool also runs as a stand-alone application that can be used to track projects, iterations, user stories, features, tests, defects and builds. By Abel Avram