Sustainable Product Development
The Lean-Agile Connection
Lean software development and Agile software development are two approaches on the minds of many who want to become more effective software developers. Lean? Agile? Are they similar or different? Do they compete or complement each other?

This is an excerpt of Alan Shalloway’s and Jim Trott’s upcoming book – "Lean-Agile Anti-Patterns and What to Do About Them".
This chapter covers several critical issues surrounding the role of quality assurance in Lean-Agile software development

An anti-pattern is a commonly occurring activity that is counter-productive to the company doing it. A "Lean" anti-pattern is an anti-pattern that goes against Lean principles. That is, it violates the company’s attempts to be following Lean methods. This article contains a table of Anti-Patterns, the Lean Principles Violated, and the Result of the Anti-Pattern. It is not meant to be complete, but is a first cut at commonly occurring Lean-Anti patterns. It has been broken up into different categories since they are related to each other – one often contributing to others.

Estimation as hypothesis is a rough draft of a chapter in a book we are writing about lightweight processes. It describes how to reframe estimation and how to use them in a lightweight process.

Our view of eXtreme Programming (XP): a methodology we like even as we recognize its strengths and weaknesses

Explores one of the more innovative language elements of C#: Delegates, in the hope of investigating some of the opportunities they present as well as some of the dangers to which they expose us.

This is about using asserts and their relationship to unit testing. These techniques could be used for different, synergistic, purposes.

Presents Encapsulation as a First Principle which implies (or leads one to) the other principles of Object Orientation.