This issue has many intersting articles to embedded teams and Agile Development topics in general.

February 2004Table of ContentsTable

4 Steve Berczuk, “Agile Foundations”
7 Mike Cohn, “Best Practices”
8 Giovanni Asproni, “ Motivation, Teamwork, and Agile Development”
16 Paul Oldfield, “Mix and Match: Making Sense of the Best Practices Jigsaw”
20 Tim Bacon, “Asking Effective Questions: Collaborative Problem-Solving”
22 Diana Larsen, “Team Agility: Exploring Self-Organizing Software Teams”
25 J.B. Rainsberger, “Write Tests Your Customers Can Read WIth FIT and FitNesse”
28 Marc Clifton, “Unit Test Patterns”
37 Brad Appleton, “Extreme Locality”
40 Martha Lindeman, Ph.D., “The Four Ways to Organize a User Interface”
41 Raghu Misra, “Agile Distributed Teams”
45 Kent McDonald, “The Pragmatic Project Leader”
49 Mike Griffiths, “DSDM Ten Years On: RAD Relic Or Agile Advocate?”
52 Barbara Roberts, “The Unpredictable Element: People”
54 Barry Fazackerley, “The Business Case for the Business Study”
55 Marco Abis, “Agile Europe”
56 Cliff Gregory, “Is ‘Objective Measurement’ The Key To Accepting Agile?”
59 Martin Fowler, “Design In Agile Process”
61 Scott Bogartz, “Selling Agility to Senior Management”
64 Michael Ivey, “Scrum Success Stories”
65 Scott Bogartz, “Agile Methods: The Tao of Software Development”
68 Brian Marick, “Testing Tips”
69 Dan Pierce, “Agile Embedded: The Ground Floor”
72 Nancy Van Schooenderwoert, “Transitioning To XP In Embedded Environments”
74 James Grenning, “Progress Before Hardware”
79 Bill Greene, “Using Agile Testing Methods To Validate FIrmware”
81 Mel Pullen, “Hard Questions For Hard Projects”
88 Lisa Crispin, “Implementing Agile”
89 Boris Gloger, “Sociology And People”
89 Linda Rising, “Patterns For Introducing New Ideas Into Organizations”
91 Boris Gloger, “Computer Programming Is A Social Activity”
96 Andy Winskill, “Introducing The Agile Enterprise”
97 Alan Francis, “Thoughts From Thoughtworks”
97 Mike Cohn, “Book Corner”
98 Deborah Hartmann, “Book Review: Slack”