Ignore details early onIn this essay, the main point made is to try and not pay attention to details early on in the project. Focus on the main functionality before diving into details. In symfony, this is easily achieved by using a basic CRUD interface first (removing the functionality you don’t need, or adding specific…
The subtitle for the book is “The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application.” I am sure this is indeed true. The approach to software development in this book sure is smart, fast and easy. Of course, not everything discussed will apply to every software development project, but it is not meant…
Since a few weeks we’ve really truely implemented some agile methods in our biggest project (Jongeren in Beeld). Since others may benefit from knowing how we have approached this, I want to share our implementation of the agile approach of software development in a PHP project with the world. First of all, I actually wrote…
In the most recent article on the agile development weblog, author Kelly Waters makes an excellent point: If you follow the Scrum principles, it will probably feel natural, because it is actually using common sense in development. It is very weird that most development teams don’t actually work according to Scrum. And so, obviously, the…
Ever since first being introduced to the Agile methodologies while working at TomTom, I’ve been intrigued. We worked in an agile way at TomTom, and now that I’m Lead Developer at Dutch Open Projects, I’m starting the introduction of Agile development there. My experiences so far as a PHP developer is that a lot of…
While working for TomTom, I got introduced into the world of Agile Development. One of the most useful things I got to learn, aside from firmly planned iterations, was the morning stand-up meeting: A short meeting to go through what every has done, what everyone will be doing, and where people are stuck. These meetings…