Agile seems to be all about short-term focus and a product life cycle is typically the polar opposite. How does one compare the relationship between the two? This is where product value comes in.

Fixed price contracts are often decried as evil, however they are something which many agile teams face. How can a company execute one using agile practices to achieve better results with lower risk?

It's now well understood that multi-tasking on a personal level is bad and slows down the rate at which we work. Roger Brown demonstrates the same problems plague teams.

#TestsEx (Sharp Tests Extensions) is a set of extensible extensions. The main target is write short assertions where the Visual Studio IDE intellisense is your guide. #TestsEx can be used with NUnit, MsTests, xUnit, MbUnit.

Selenium is a testing framework used for automated Web application testing. Get to know Selenium Remote Control (Selenium RC), which allows you to build tests for different browsers to ensure your Web applications are of the highest quality.

You’re ready to start unit-testing in a more managed, process-oriented way. How do you do it? Let's say, for example, you have Microsoft Team System in place, and you use it for source control and tracking work items. Obviously, you can do much more with Team System, but let's start with the basics. You've tasted enough unit-testing to feel that everyone can benefit from them. Where would you start?

A small video on to share ideas on how business analysts should participate in the Agile development process.

ScrumMonkey is a simple, online collaborative scrum-based planning application built with the latest Adobe enterprise RIA tools, LCDS 3.0 and the Flex 4 SDK. ScrumMonkey is very far from being a complete Scrum management tool

JFeature is an open source feature/requirement coverage tool that facilitates focusing on requirements as you develop code. It lets you leverage from standard development practices to get more insight into the requirements covered by the code. JFeature works on top of the well known unit testing framework - JUnit, to identify the requirement coverage in the code. This also makes JFeature useful for projects, which use tools that operate on top of JUnit, such as, Cactus, StrutsTestcase, etc

Coverlipse is an Eclipse plugin that visualizes the code coverage of JUnit Tests. It is unique for it integrates seamlessly in Eclipse. The coverage results are given directly after a JUnit run. This makes it the perfect tool for developers to recognize their tests fullfil their task.