Agile Sharepoint development by 21apps and Andrew Woodward MVP

We are passionate about agile development covering every aspect from introducing agile management techniques like Scrum to the technical challenges of unit testing and developer adoption. Coupled with our almost exclusive work with SharePoint we are helping to solve these issues and will be making this available for discussion, review and criticism.

We will be publishing White Papers, articles and code samples covering all of the main areas of interest.

• Agile Management
  • An introduction to Agile Development using Scrum
  • Best Practices: Agile SharePoint with Scrum – inc slidedeck
• Development
  • Best Practices: Test Driven Development with SharePoint – inc Slide Deck
• Unit Testing
  • Beginners Guide to Test Driven Web Part Development
  • Unit Testing SharePoint Solutions – Getting into the Object Model
  • 5 part series – TDD in SharePoint – Using Dependency Injection
• Performance Testing
  • Profiling: Improve you SharePoint code with Red Gate ANTS
• Acceptance Testing (and other types)
• Continous Integration
• Deployment

Everything we do will have a SharePoint take on it but not treat SharePoint as a special case, we will reference general material and information where appropriate. We will not limit our reviews to Microsoft software, if we find a tool or solution that makes Agile SharePoint Development easier we will post that.

What other people have to say on the subject – in no way a definitive list

We are not trying to be the only people to do this, we want more people to post their experiences, we all need to share knowledge to move things forward, take a look at whats out already – the good the bad and sometimes just ugly – but its out there.

Spencer Harber – Test Driven SharePoint Development (March 2007)

Adventures in MOSS Land – Test Driven Development with SharePoint (April 2008)

Peter Searle’s – SharePoint: Not Unit Testing, Peter has a great writing style making his posts a must read….

Peter was: writing this post on 2008-05-19, and reserved the right to change his mind later. He wants to change. Like Fox Mulder, HE WANTS TO BELIEVE.

Casey Carlton – Reflector magic and the Doubler add-in – Not sure I agree that MOSS code is Legacy code but.

Bil Simser – Scrum for Team System Tips

Redmond Developer – Building a Virtual BullPen with SharePoint – Have a play with this if you want to get your backlog in quickly, we tried this for 2 sprints but moved to Version One Team Edition very quickly.

Mike Cohns Blog – Succeeding in Agile

Steve Smith & Penny Coventry – Using VS2008 to Stress Test SharePoint