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Simple Talk is Red Gate’s journal for SQL Server and .NET developers. (Red Gate make SQL Server and .NET tools, such as SQL Data Compare and various .NET profilers). So anyway, I just published a kind ...

As software eats the world, business leaders need to understand better how software gets made, and the people who make it. An excellent guide is Kent Beck, one of the parents of the Agile software ...

Recognized as the inventor of XP (Extreme Programming) and a co-author of the Agile Manifesto, Kent Beck has been a prominent advocate of agile programming and its use of shorter release cycles in ...

As corporations struggle to complete application development projects on time, within budget and without lots of buggy code, they’re taking a closer look at new development methods, such as extreme ...

My company is considering a transition to a Test-Driven Development system (N-Unit) for our programmers. We have a team of 10 guys of varying levels of experience. We are developing entirely in .NET ...

Agile methods, and XP in particular, can be a tough sell, although they don't have to be. Agile disciplines such as XP champion a Whole Team approach in which line-of-business reps participate as team ...