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Looking for the best open source tools for running agile projects. The goal of this little experiment is to create a CI / CD pipeline including planning, task management, source control / versioning, triggered build and test and deployment to the cloud. Today I’m experimenting with Taiga an open source planning and task management tool. …
Thinking of using this cake image in future discussions of vertical slicing of user stories. What do you think? https://www.reddit.com/r/creepy/comments/9oidi7/cockroach_cake/?utm_source=reddit-android
Using stored procedures in your Data Access code from ASP.Net applications stops most (not all) SQL Injection Attacks and also ensure that the query is executed with the same parameters in the same order and format each time allowing the query optimizer to use the same query plan on subsequent executions. So it makes good …
This is a great video from the AWS Tutorial Series where they show how to configure multiple Jenkins Build nodes in AWS to support Continuous Integration
When planning an agile project creating User Stories and estimating their complexity is an important step to provide your customer and delivery team with a clear understanding of the solution being developed. Estimating the complexity of a User Story is something typically done by a Product Owner after or during a meeting with a customer …
Slicing by Roles User stories often involves a number of roles (or groups) that performs parts of that functionality. Take a user story to publish new articles to a public newspaper website: As news organization I want to publish new articles on our homepage, so customers have a reason to return periodically By considering the …
Are your Daily Standups and Sprint Retrospectives taking too long? Do important stakeholders frequently skip your meetings? Do team members question the value of your Standups and Retros? It may be time to reevaluate the priorities of your daily standup and retrospectives. Don’t just hit the bullet points! A retrospective is not just about what you did yesterday …
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Slicing by CRUD or ISUD (AKA Slicing by Operations) Any User Stories involving a managed entity, such as a Customer, Order, Employee or Product, will almost always require some level of management functionality. This management functionality will provide the ability to perform a number of operations including at a minimum operation, such as Create, Read, …
A SQL Injection Attack is one of the many security issues that must be address when designing and developing applications that access a database. The injection vulnerability is potentially present on pages or forms where the user must enter a value to be submitted to the server. If the user input is not properly validated …
Slicing by Input Parameter (Datatypes) In most cases a business process or whatever function that the new feature is intended to automate requires some data to perform its actions. For the sake of this discussion we will refer to this data as Input Parameters. Data of different types in most cases will need to be …