Agile NCR Conference – A Dossier
Posted by Abhishek Agrawal just before lunchtime: August 8th, 2009
Feb 2007 - An endeavor to share our excitement, experience (rather inexperience) and child like curiosity about the new toy - Agile Software Development Methodology (more...)
A Blog aint An Article
Posted by Abhishek Agrawal late at night: November 20th, 2008
Recently I had an interesting discussion with a colleague about blogs and about what keeps people from posting a lot of them.
Especially in our fields where-in we learn something new every now and then and know that people will benefit from sharing our learning, what really pushes us away from blogging?
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Flex Testing Toolkit
Posted by Abhishek Agrawal in the late evening: November 19th, 2008
My recent assignment at Albumprinter gave an opportunity to play with flex testing tools available out there. Coming back to serious flex development after more than a year was a pleasant surprise. The state of flex when I last did something on it was for sure not “mature”. There weren’t many frameworks around.
But things have changed a great deal since then. Not only do we have frameworks implementing MVC (Cairngorm) but also some standard extensions (UM extensions) to those frameworks, we also have spring like IOC frameworks (Prana) for Flex.
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Team Dynamics – what to expect and do?
Posted by Abhishek Agrawal in the early morning: October 15th, 2008
Effective teamwork is essential in today’s world, but as you’ll know from the teams you have led or belonged to, you can’t expect a new team to perform exceptionally from the very outset. Team formation takes time, and usually follows some easily recognizable stages, as the team journeys from being a group of strangers to becoming united team with a common goal.
As part of my curriculum of “Leadership Training for Software Professionals” at IIM, Bangalore, I came across some very interesting and highly applicable models explaining various stages of team dynamics. It also laid out what we, as managers, should do/expect at various stages of the team maturity.
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Application of IT in Rural Development
Posted by Abhishek Agrawal around lunchtime: September 1st, 2008
Jaipur, Aug 23, Saturday, 11:45 AM: My phone played my favorite ring tune from an old Movie...
"Hello Abhishek, this is Dr. Gupta, head of Computer Science Department, RKG Institute of Technology. We met a few months back when you were a speaker at The Agile Workshop at our institute. Do you remember?" ... (more...)
Lean Software Development Methodologies: Tom and Mary Poppendieck
Posted by Abhishek Agrawal terribly early in the morning: July 9th, 2008
July 06: Xebia India IT Architects hosted a session by The Poppendiecks.
I was fortunate to be one of the participants as well as the organizer of their North India trip. Having practicing Lean, Scrum and XP for quite some time now, it was a nice experience to measure our understanding of these concepts against the "creator's definitions". Here I take you on a quick(??) trip to the session through my eyes...
Agile Awareness Workshop2008
Posted by Abhishek Agrawal terribly early in the morning: June 18th, 2008
Saturday, June 14, 2008: Xebia India organized an Agile Awareness Workshop that aimed at helping people very new to the Agile world of software development to understand the concept, appreciate the difference and know the jargon.
Keeping up with the Xebia tradition, we sent out an informal invite.
Despite the schedule conflicting with India-Pak cricket finals, we had a good turn out and an excited audience.
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Do We Really Need An Agile Coach?
Posted by Abhishek Agrawal in the early morning: April 10th, 2008
Coach – To help someone achieve their goals. To help them achieve it with efficiency, even perfection, to listen to people, to TALK to them! To see their excitement, suspicion, energy… Doesn’t that trigger a nerve of passion?
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