Hi Durban Agilists, Can you do Agile without TDD? As we head into spring and leave the cold weather behind us, we’re gearing up for our next AgileSA Durban gathering which will be held in a few weeks time on Wednesday 5th October. This event will focus on TDD with the theme being “Can you [...]

By Rosalyn Charlton March 2011 Our Durban Agile user group kicked off 2011 with an in-depth open discussion on some concepts that lie at the very heart of Agile, but which often pose the greatest challenges to Agile teams; these being Collaboration, Swarming, and Pair Programming. Interestingly, although collaboration is a core concept of Agile, [...]

By Ivor Jordan Collaboration works! This statement is empirical not anecdotal. Why?  Well in practicing agile I have been witness to our team successes as a direct result of the following:  We have well defined singular shared goals that are defined around each task or endeavour. Our singular focus is both intra-team and inter-team. We [...]

Hi Durban Agilists, Welcome to 2011, and a very AGILE one it is set to be!  We will be kicking off our ‘Agile 2011’ with an open discussion forum on the evening  of 16th February.  The topic will be: Collaboration, ‘Swarming’, Pair Coding:  What they are, and when to do which. The event will take [...]

I was able to attend an enjoyable Agile SA meeting for a short while last night where once again the drinks and the snacks where a huge hit. Unfortunately, I believe that it was the last meeting for 2010. Arrie van der Dussen from Agile SA gave a presentation on KANBAN. He started with a [...]

By Adriaan Prinsloo, Senior Systems Architect, Elzaris Technologies During the last two Agile SA gatherings in Durban, I was struck again by the realisation of how diverse the agile space really is.  When we organised the company showcases I was worried that we would have four presentations that pretty much said the same thing, just [...]

By Rosalyn Charlton, September 2010 Go on, admit it!  Our user group gatherings just keep getting better and better.  During our September event we held part 2 of our Agile Showcase presentations, and what a showcase it was.  Much to our enjoyment the evening involved Oscar-award winning theatrical performances, virtual drives to the beach complete [...]

By Rosalyn Charlton, August 2010 At our last Durban Agile SA event it really struck home, with a resounding, ululating, undeniable and somewhat appealing thud, just how dynamic, enthusiastic, and pro-active we are here in Durban in our agile community.  It is certainly worthy of much applause. Applause Not only did we have the biggest [...]

Dear fellow Durban Agilist With the World Cup fever abating and life starting to return to normal, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, we are gearing up for our long-awaited next Durban Agile SA Event next week on Wednesday 21 July. The reason this is such a much-anticipated event is that we will be holding the [...]