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    Announcing the Speaking Lineup for Philly Day of Agile

    Technorati Tags: Agile,Conferences,Scrum,Kanban,Test Driven Development While we still have a couple of speakers that we are trying to work into the line-up (but we only have so many slots, so decisions are very tough), the lineup for the Philadelphia Day of Agile is gearing up to be an awesome event! We have international speakers, agile thought leaders, and experts in the field coming from all over the country to share their knowledge with you!  And the best part?  Admission is only $50!  This is less than half of what it costs to run this event, the rest is paid for by our generous...
    August 18, 2011 2 min read
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    Build Your Custom RadControls Skin and Get in the Competition for a $200 ThinkGeek Gift Card

    Dear Telerik Community, We are happy to let you know that the Skin Sharing Portal, Telerik’s medium for community-shared skins for the RadControls, is back! Here’s what it brings for you: You can now share your amazing designs and skins for our components with your peers You can download different free skins and PSD files that you can use to style your applications Until August 31st (! Deadline extended until Sept 15th !) you can submit your custom skin (of at least 7 skinned RadControls), collect as many tweets with your skin name and the #TelerikSkins hashtag and win a $200 ThinkGeek...
    August 15, 2011 2 min read
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    The LOB Chronicles - Exploring User Experience (UX)

    In the previous post we discussed a host of different things to introduce everyone to the LOB Chronicles project as well as the technologies (both Microsoft and Telerik) that are involved.  With a combination of Silverlight, TeamPulse (build with the Telerik Xaml tools), RadControls for Silverlight, OpenAccess, and Test Studio, we’re ready to start planning out our application from the ground up.  Before we write code, though, we want to take a step back and consider just who we’re designing this software for - which is where our UX experts come into play. Why UX? This is a great question and one...
    August 11, 2011 5 min read
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    Challenges of Adopting Agile - Q&A Panel

    I’m pretty excited about an upcoming event I’m taking part in  - it’s actually going to be a Q&A panel where myself, Steve Porter, and Phil Japikse will be discussing some of the most difficult aspects of Agile adoption.
    August 10, 2011 1 min read
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    Starbucks in Japan is using Kanban for Quality

    When people think about Kanban, they usually get the impression that Kanban is either an inventory control mechanism or a system to manage an assembly line of workers. This is due to Kanban’s historical roots as part of Lean Manufacturing and the Toyota Production System. When I talk about Kanban, especially in reference to using Kanban with software development, I stress the importance of flow; how you pull items through the production system while limiting the work in progress. My favorite thing about Kanban is the Kanban card itself. Kanban gets its name from the card; Kanban translated from the Japanese means “signal card”. According to Lean definitions a Kanban card...
    August 08, 2011 5 min read