Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - (Page 65) D ow nl d oa a deliverable documentation. After all, a deliverable is a deliverable. So, the fears concerning the mythical lack of documentation on agile projects appear to be unfounded, forcing the traditionalists who are still holding out to find another excuse for not adopting agile strategies. As you see in Figure 2, the survey did show that agilists are slightly less likely than traditionalists to produce system overview documentation, although slightly more likely to produce operations documentation. I suspect that there is less of a need for system overview documentation because agilists have a greater tendency to produce higher quality code as the result of refactoring and test-first practices. Agile teams may also require less documentation due to the practice of writing executable specifications. The Practices and Principles Survey explored how people communicate with one another on agile project teams, asking how effective various ways for communicating with stakeholders are. In order of most effective to least effective, the score for each technique is a weighted average between 5 (very effective) and –5 (very ineffective), it found the following: PEG® GUI Development Tools A family of portable graphics software for designing a high performance GUI for any embedded device. application development G RA PH I CS SO FT WA RE FO R E MBE D D E D SYS TE MS Figure 1: Primary strategies for modeling for various software development paradigms. Figure 2: The chance that a key documentation deliverable will be produced by teams following various software development paradigms. November 2008 l www.ddj.com l Dr. Dobb’s Journal 65 http://www.swellsoftware.com http://www.swellsoftware.com http://www.rallydev.com http://www.rallydev.com http://www.ddj.com
Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 Contents Friday Night Fish Fry Alia Vox Developer Diaries Developer's Notebook Saving Open Source Conversations iPhone Building Your Own Web Server Green Telnet What's New In Boost Threads? Testing Service Oriented Architectures Test Case Generation, UML, and Eclipse Unit Testing Web Services C3 Programming The Agile Edge Swaine's Flames Effective Concurrency Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - (Page BB1) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - (Page BB2) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 (Page Cover1) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 (Page Cover2) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 (Page 1) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 (Page 2) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 (Page 3) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Contents (Page 4) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Contents (Page 5) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Friday Night Fish Fry (Page 6) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Friday Night Fish Fry (Page 7) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Friday Night Fish Fry (Page 8) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Friday Night Fish Fry (Page 9) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Alia Vox (Page 10) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Alia Vox (Page 11) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Developer Diaries (Page 12) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Developer Diaries (Page 13) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Developer's Notebook (Page 14) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Developer's Notebook (Page 15) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Saving Open Source (Page 16) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Saving Open Source (Page 17) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Saving Open Source (Page 18) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Saving Open Source (Page 19) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Conversations (Page 20) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Conversations (Page 21) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - iPhone (Page 22) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - iPhone (Page 23) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - iPhone (Page 24) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - iPhone (Page 25) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - iPhone (Page 26) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - iPhone (Page 27) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Building Your Own Web Server (Page 28) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Building Your Own Web Server (Page 29) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Building Your Own Web Server (Page 30) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Building Your Own Web Server (Page 31) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Building Your Own Web Server (Page 32) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Green Telnet (Page 33) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Green Telnet (Page 34) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Green Telnet (Page 35) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Green Telnet (Page 36) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Green Telnet (Page 37) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Green Telnet (Page 38) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Green Telnet (Page 39) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - What's New In Boost Threads? (Page 40) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - What's New In Boost Threads? (Page 41) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - What's New In Boost Threads? (Page 42) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - What's New In Boost Threads? (Page 43) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - What's New In Boost Threads? (Page 44) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - What's New In Boost Threads? (Page 45) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Testing Service Oriented Architectures (Page 46) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Testing Service Oriented Architectures (Page 47) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Testing Service Oriented Architectures (Page 48) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Test Case Generation, UML, and Eclipse (Page 49) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Test Case Generation, UML, and Eclipse (Page 50) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Test Case Generation, UML, and Eclipse (Page 51) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Test Case Generation, UML, and Eclipse (Page 52) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Unit Testing Web Services (Page 53) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Unit Testing Web Services (Page 54) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Unit Testing Web Services (Page 55) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Unit Testing Web Services (Page 56) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Unit Testing Web Services (Page 57) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Unit Testing Web Services (Page 58) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - C3 Programming (Page 59) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - C3 Programming (Page 60) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - C3 Programming (Page 61) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - C3 Programming (Page 62) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - C3 Programming (Page 63) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - The Agile Edge (Page 64) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - The Agile Edge (Page 65) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - The Agile Edge (Page 66) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - The Agile Edge (Page 67) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Effective Concurrency (Page 68) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Effective Concurrency (Page 69) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Effective Concurrency (Page 70) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Effective Concurrency (Page 71) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Swaine's Flames (Page 72) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Swaine's Flames (Page Cover3) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Swaine's Flames (Page Cover4)
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