Working software over comprehensive documentation

by Peter McHannigan on August 6, 2010

Working software over comprehensive documentation is the second of four principles within the Manifesto for Software Development. When I first read this, I thought that this meant write software NOT documentation. We’ve had a go at this and it doesn’t really work like this nor is it supposed to.

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Mobile posting

by Richard McCoy on July 27, 2010

This is a test to illustrate our ability to post entries using mobile technologies, and so far it seems to be firing on all cylinders. How’s that for some affordable fire power?

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Cucumber’s new business cards

July 15, 2010

As part of Cucumber’s continuing evolution and as part of my role I’ve just finished the design of the new business cards and figured it might be nice to talk about the reasoning behind the new design and my theories and process on business card design.

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Discovering the real business requirements

July 14, 2010

Traditionally we’ve created static wireframes and specification documents to define a clients requirements. There are a couple of issues with this

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A new partnership with Fuji Xerox

July 12, 2010

Cucumber have embarked on a new relationship with Fuji Xerox as an Integrated Technology Partner. What does this mean for our customers? Fuji Xerox have market leading printer/photocopy devices and have announced some really cool technology called Smart Connect which enables the devices to integrate with Microsoft tools such as SharePoint and SQL Server. Cucumber, [...]

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Delivering interesting & engaging content

July 12, 2010

TomTom have done a great job on defining their audience and then scripting some interesting and engaging content. Check this out… Let me know if you’ve seen any good work on aligning content with a specific (G-rated) audience.

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Getting your blog up and running – fast

July 11, 2010

For a while we’ve had a blog running at Cucumber. We’ve had one or two active bloggers but overall enthusiasm and commitment was low. If you’re in a similar situation and would like to turn this around

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Agile vs Waterfall Software Development Buzzdown

July 9, 2010

I’ve just run an agile software development search on Social Mention. I got the following results:

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Reflections on eating 34 bananas in a day

July 8, 2010

Peter: I feel sick, very sick. Doctor: What are your symptoms? Peter: It feels like there’s a large wrecker ball – you know, the thing they use to demolish buildings – bouncing about in my stomach. With each movement the ball sways from side to side crushing dead bananas lodged in my trunk. My mouth [...]

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Are you managing your contracts?

July 6, 2010

This sound familiar  “oh no, we’ve just renewed on a rollover contract which we didn’t want and now we’ve incurred huge costs”  “where’s the ABC Ltd contract? Bob has left and we don’t know where he’s put it?”  “who’s responsible for managing the contract filing system? I can’t locate my contract details with XYZ Inc” [...]

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