We all have seen great initiatives of products come out of Berkeley AMPLab. Today, I am dedicating this Blog to one of my favorite products in Big Data Processing realm and how a partnership like no other is bringing us a Big Data Service worthy of consideration.  Of course, the product is Apache Spark and the partnership is between the big tech titan Microsoft and Databricks.

A key artifact in Scrum is the Sprint Backlog, also called an iteration backlog. It is highly versatile but is easy to misuse. This guide shares what the Sprint Backlog is, how it fits into Scrum, best practices, and much more.

Continuous integration is a software engineering practice that originated in XP (Extreme Programming) and boils down to integrating distinct parts of the source code at the highest possible frequency, that is, continuously.

While some project management professionals may believe that they can easily retool or rebrand themselves from Project Manager to Scrum Master, the truth is that both disciplines seem to take almost diametrically opposed approaches to software development.

The use of agile development methods and practices has become something increasingly more natural in companies' daily lives. Some of these companies, although they do not admit it, implicitly end up applying some common practices, with the aim of obtaining results sooner.

The retrospective is my favorite Scrum event as it fosters the ultimate conversation. It allows people to talk!

I think of Scrum Backlog prioritization as if it is a restaurant experience. The backlog itself is a menu arranged to fit the customer’s needs.

In Agile regression testing, a software programmer’s primary job is to still create code, but rather than leaving the task of finding any bugs to testers, they're expected to check their code as its created for errors.

I get often asked when I work with people or teach a class how to show real progress on an Agile project. Roadmaps, Release Burnup's, Velocity, how to answer questions on delivery. We build products for external clients using Scrum and will show people how we visualize progress sprint by sprint for our customers. Showing how velocity changes, roadmap, release plan changes and most importantly how customer feedback has affected the release date. This isn't hypothetical talk but real world experiences and conversations.

However, first I will start out with showing the old ways of doing things with Gantt charts. Why the traditional way doesn't work. Comparing the Green, Yellow, Red method and how it doesn't work. The roll that into the better, agile mindset of delivering questions like when will be done, what will we get and how we communicate good and bad news to our clients.

Pulling latest, performing a rebase but something goes wrong!  Where are my local commits?!? They are gone!!!  Use this guide to recover those local commits and save your day!

We've know it for a long time but if you were not aware, Ybor City in Tampa, FL is a great place to start and grow an IT business.

By using NSubstitute, we can easily test if a method is called even with complex parameters.

We often get asked what the differences are between a native mobile application and a hybrid one. I was starting to put down some notes on the topic when I came across an article that summed up my thoughts.  So I wanted to go through it and mention some key points.

Avoid all the Hyper-V nonsense when developing Android apps using Android Studio in Windows.

Recently, GitLab suffered a major outage (over 20+ hours) because of an accidental production metadata deletion by one of their developers.  An embarrassing situation for the developer responsible and the company as a whole.

Scrum isn't easy, but it's effective. One of the things that teams struggle with is a way to automate their testing and learning techniques like Test-Drive Development or Behaviour-Driven Development.  Both which can be implemented in both the back-end and the front-end code.

One team, I work with also automates the UI testing. One tool they use and they include as part of their Definition of Done for each feature is building a test automation using...

I just recently updated my Mac to Sierra and Xcode 8.2.1 and right away had issues connecting to the Mac using the Xamarin Mac Agent from my Windows PC.  I made sure that the versions of Xamarin on the Mac and Visual Studio on the PC were the same version but kept getting the error "Xcode license must be accepted in order to be connected and working against the Mac"

This is my second real world BDD examples that we use here at Clearly Agile. I've been given permission to share this piece of code from the client.

In this example, we have a scenario where a user can create something called a "Project" and it has to have a correct "Open Date". Which is when the Project is complete.

Over at toggl, they have a great infographic showing how you might build a car using waterfall vs. scrum vs. kanban vs. lean. We liked it a lot that we wanted to share... One of the best software development infographics around.