Category Archives: Agile

Hudson and Symfony continuous integration

We’ve been experimenting this week with using Hudson as our continuous integration server for our latest Symfony project.  Previous experiences with CruiseControl via phpUnderControl and the symfonyUnderControl plugin were OK-ish but we’d occasionally experience CruiseControl dying on us with no warning apart from the lack of emails after checking our code in.
So we decided it [...]

Agility, Speed & Test Driven Development

I’ve just been through the updates from the groups I’m connected with on LinkedIn, and I read an interesting quote about Agility and speed.
If you focus on Quality, through effective refactoring and test coverage, speed will be maintained in the long term. When the code base gets quite large, speed of change can be difficult [...]

Learn Scrum in under 10 minutes

Here at White October, we’re using Scrum to manage projects for some of our clients.  There’s a very good short introduction to Scrum on YouTube.  You can view it here: Learn Scrum in under 10 Minutes
Scrum is an Agile method and allows us to develop features iteratively.  This means we’re best placed to be proactive [...]