Agile Development – Change is constant!
Often I see that whenever there is a change in requirements from the client, the developers tends to get de-motivated.. unwilling to change the codebase.. I hear comments like: They are not clear on what they want They should first define their requirements and then move forward with this Our marketing team would accept just everything that client [...]
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To Foster Change, Clone Your Successes
It’s no secret that people can be very resistant to change, especially if that change comes from an external force. After all, ‘better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.’ In the business world, we often see this adage put into practice when an organization tries to improve its processes for productivity, quality [...]
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Refactoring: Refactor your thoughts before code
Ahem…. Ahem! Well, when I thought of writing about this topic, was not sure where to start, but it has to be from somewhere. I love to introduce this word from the day it entered in my life. Probably you are wondering how come a word entered in someone’s life. Don’t give pain to your brain; Let [...]
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Hosting a ASP.NET Web Application in a Web Farm
Once the traffic on any website goes beyond what could be handled by single stand alone server the natural progression is to port the website into a web farm or web garden. There is a good article that explain the difference between web farm and web garden here (http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article713-difference-between-web-farm-and-web-garden-.aspx ). Few of the key points that [...]
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Agile The Revolution: Now What?
Agile the revolution: Now what? Before we start our journey I would request the reader to be patient enough to reach the end of the blog and not to draw a conclusion in the middle of it. So what did I mean when I said “Agile the revolution”? Let us go back to the days when [...]
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Toy Story 3: An Agile Blockbuster?
Ever since Toy Story was released in 1995, Pixar has never ceased to amaze us. The average international gross per Pixar film is more than $550 million, and the studio has collected 24 Academy Awards. So what makes Pixar so successful? According to a recent article by Wired Magazine, it is a combination of Pixar’s [...]
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ASP.Net application Migration to Windows Azure
Migration of existing ASP.Net web application to Windows Azure involves manual work as there is no automated tool available. This also requires you to look at several aspects of your application. However, if you already have a scalable, configurable application capable on running on a Web farm then migrating the application to cloud is not [...]
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Should We Compare? SOAP VS REST
First of all let us not compare apples to oranges. SOAP is a protocol where as REST is an approach. So we can completely model my system for REST approach and then implement it using SOAP/WSDL, CORBA or any other technology. So what do we compare SOAP to? I would say right comparison will be SOAP vs POX [...]
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Thinking Lean to Develop Big
I recently heard an interview during which one of the people claimed that the US automobile industry’s decline was due in part to its too-little-too-late adoption of “Lean” principles. Lean is a business approach that focuses on eliminating expenditures that do not directly create value for the customer. Originating in Japan nearly 20 years ago, [...]
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Why successful projects fail… and failures succeed
The 2009 Standish CHAOS report states that only 32% of software projects are delivered on time, on budget and with the required features and functions. A staggering 44% are late, over budget or with less-than-desired features and functions. At the same time, 24% are cancelled prior to completion or delivered and never used. So what [...]
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Aug 28, 2010
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