Agile in a Flash

Red, green, refactor.  The first step in the test-driven development (TDD) cycle is to ensure that your newly-written test fails before ...

Programmers have to consider cardinality in data. For instance, a simple mailing list program may need to deal with people having multipl...

If you're reading this blog, you're probably a believer that a good agile process can make a difference. And maybe you've recogn...

You can find many good blog posts on what to name your tests . We present instead an appropriate strategy for when and how to think ab...

(Kudos to the great software guru Jeff Foxworthy for the card phrasing.) An effective unit test should follow the FIRST prescriptio...

In our article Test Abstraction: Eight Techniques to Improve Your Tests (published by PragPub), we whittled down a convoluted, messy tes...

Teams self-organize and self-direct, so much of the Taylorist views of what a manager can do seem to not apply at all. What is the working a...

Great managers can improve teams in meaningful ways: smoothing the workflow, selecting targets worth hitting, wisely managing budget and sch...

I'm told that there are shortages of AgileInAFlash, some channels having projected waits of as much as two months for replenishment. Y...

Thanks to the demand of our readers, Agile In A Flash is going to its second printing only 8 months after its initial release. Thanks to all...