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The Agile Chronicles is a set of articles documenting my experiences using an Agile process (Scrum) in software development on my current Flex project.

1. Part 1 – Stressful
2. Part 2 – Code Refactoring
3. Part 3 – Branch Workflow
4. Part 4 – POC, Strategy, and Design Challenges
5. Part 5 – Acceptance Criteria & Punting
6. Part 6 – Tools, Extra Merge Day, and Postponed Transitions
7. Part 7 – Bugs, Unit Testing, and Throughput
8. Part 8 – Demo, Burnout, and Feature Juggling
9. Part 9 – Scope Creep
10. Part 10 – Conclusions

This entry is about utilizing branches for each developer in Subversion, Merge Day, and how while cool, it’s an ivory tower process.

Note: This isn’t a tenet of the Agile methodology itself, it’s just something that works well when you have a bunch of developers collaborating together rapidly, and a specific workflow our client requested we follow.

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The Agile Chronicles is a set of articles documenting my experiences using an Agile process (Scrum) in software development on my current Flex project.

1. Part 1 – Stressful
2. Part 2 – Code Refactoring
3. Part 3 – Branch Workflow
4. Part 4 – POC, Strategy, and Design Challenges
5. Part 5 – Acceptance Criteria & Punting
6. Part 6 – Tools, Extra Merge Day, and Postponed Transitions
7. Part 7 – Bugs, Unit Testing, and Throughput
8. Part 8 – Demo, Burnout, and Feature Juggling
9. Part 9 – Scope Creep
10. Part 10 – Conclusions

This entry is about the joy of coding quickly, finding the balance between getting something done quickly vs. architecting for the future, and dealing with the massive amount of re-factoring that’s entailed in iterative Scrum development.

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