Agile University
Agile Process Kick-Start Class
Data Transfer Solutions is pleased to announce that Chris Spagnuolo, Dave Bouwman, Lakshmi Rameseshan and Randy Goss
are now members of the faculty at
Agile University.
You check out
Agile University and our faculty
profiles
here. As part of our newest division,
DTS Agile, our trainers will be offering real world agile
training and consulting delivered by real world software developers. Registration is now open for three sections of
our
Agile Process Kick-Start class through Agile University. Here's a brief description of the course:
What are agile practices and how can they work for you? This course is designed to answer those questions and
more. Speaking from our real world experiences implementing agile practices in several organizations, we'll show
you what agile looks like and how it works from a practitioners viewpoint. We'll specifically focus on the use of
Scrum to iteratively and incrementally deliver high quality, valuable, working software to your customers quickly.
Learn more about DTS Agile and Agile University
here.
Dave Bouwman Places Second!
2008 ESRI Developer Summit
Congratulations to our very own Dave Bouwman for taking 2nd place in the ArcGIS Server Code Challenge at the 2008 ESRI Developer
Summit! Dave developed the ArcGIS Server Virtual Earth Tile Server which is an extensible, interface based, adaptive caching
Virtual Earth Tile Server that can be extended to use any map rendering engine. The initial release has one Tile Provider which
uses the ArcGIS Server SOAP api.
Dave said that the code was developed because he needed a way to pull tiles out of ArcGIS Server. The Fort Collins DTS team is
using this on two projects. When asked on the ESRI podcast who this application was particularly useful for, Dave said, "It
you’re using ArchGIS Server and you want to pull stuff into Virtual Earth and you can’t wait for 9.3, where ERSI is going to
be shipping this as native functionality, I think this works really well."
Dave has his own blog and deals with a lot of these types of high-end mapping and GIS.
http://blog.davebouman.net
For detailed information on the Virtual Earth Tile Server,
click here.
To download the source code,
click here.
To listen to the podcast, where Dave talks about his entry,
click here.
DTS Agile
Website Goes Live
Tired of slipped deadlines, rushed releases, and buggy software?
Learn how to bring sanity back to your development team with Agile practices.
We are now offering reality-based training and coaching. We'll share our experience with you.
Click here for the new DTS Agile website.
Agilistas
Agile Survey Results
The survey was conducted over a 30-day period in February. It specifically addressed agile adoption in the GIS world. In total, 347 GIS professional from 36 countries responded to the survey.
Click here for a complete overview of the results.
The Global Geospatial Magazine
Agile Project Management for GIS
Agile refers a set of project management and software engineering practices which focus on reducing project risk by incrementally
developing software through a series of iterations.In order to understand many of the Agile concepts, it's worth quickly reviewing
how software has historically been developed.
Since about 1970, traditional software development has been approached from a "waterfall" perspective. This set of methodologies,
which were inspired by civil and mechanical engineering, approach software development as a series of steps which proceed linearly
to completion - not unlike the building of a bridge. These steps are typically broken out into Requirements, Specifications,
Design, Coding, Testing, and Delivery. In the ideal waterfall world, a team approaches a project and immediately gathers all
the known requirements from the stakeholders at once. The team then retreats for months or years during development and the end
of which they have produced working software that meets the initial requirements of the users. While this sounds good in theory,
in practice it has been less than successful.
Click here to read the entire article.
Agilistas Website
Goes Live
After working closely with the good folks at
Rally Software Development, we
have launched the
Agilistas website as part of
Agile Commons. The Agilistas
website is a collaborative space for agile practitioners to share ideas and information with each other and the world. Agilistas
has a community blog where members can post their ideas and opinions, a news and events section to announce current news
in the agile community and upcoming agile events, a file share area for uploading, downloading and commenting on files, a discussion board, and a page for Agilistas on
LinkedIn.
If you are
not currently an Agile Commons member,
click here to
join
Agilistas.
If you are currently an Agile Commons member,
click here to
join
Agilistas.
