In the 11 years since the Agile Manifesto was created, the adoption of agile concepts has continued to grow. The number of agile user groups, conferences, and books is a strong indication that more and more people are at least exploring the idea, if not working to improve their adoption and execution. This growth has been so significant that Gartner has declared that “agile is now mainstream”.

Along with this growth in adoption and exploration of agile, the number of myths surrounding agile has grown as well.

To help us go deeper and get a better understanding of the principles...

Are you going to meet with the .NET and agile development world at this year’s edition of Norwegian Developers Conference between June 6-8? Telerik is excited to take part in NDC 2012 and meet all of you there at the Telerik Booth!

Stop by and fill-in a short mobile-friendly survey to enter a raffle for the chance to win a TeamPulse and Test Studio bundle worth $4,000. Don’t miss the chance to grab the Telerik’s award-winning agile project management and software testing solutions. The winner will be drawn at 2:40pm on June 8 at the Telerik Booth and must be present to win.

We...

With the 2012 R2 Release, localization of the Ideas and Feedback Portal is as easy as editing a text file! 

Background

Localization is the process of changing the text in an application to another language, or locale.  Well designed applications allow for changing the text that is displayed without having to branch the source code and recompile, and TeamPulse certainly falls into this category.  Built on Microsoft’s .NET Platform, TeamPulse takes full advantage of the localization features provided by the .NET Framework, allowing you to customize the Ideas and Feedback portal to the language that best meets your needs.

Based on our customers’...

Imagine the scene.  You are starting a new project.  At the kickoff meeting the stakeholder introduces the mission of the project, the business analyst hands out the requirements document, the project manager hands out the project plan, and the development manager gives his best “Do it for the Gipper” speech.  You look through the project plan and see that it specifies a release date (several months in the future), the resources that will be involved, major milestones to be met, and everyone’s assignments.

The team looks over the stack of paper in front of them, and roll their eyes. “Here we...

Today we’re starting a new endeavor in the Xaml teams at Telerik to bring a new demo application your way.   The application that we have in mind is a Customer Relationship Management (better known as CRM) solution intended to help a fictional sales person through the trials and tribulations of his day-to-day experience.  Now keep in mind, we’re not looking to make an application that gets sold under the Telerik banner, rather this is an exercise to see how UX, design, architecture, and our team of eight can work together to produce and explain a brand new demo featuring some...

I owe an apology to a few hundred Telerik fans out there – I didn’t watch the road (aka webinar registrations) closely enough and I let it run too high up, to the point where we crashed GoToWebinar capacity (1001 attendees –  that’s right - one thousand and one). If you want to watch the webinar that crushed GTW limits, you can see it at Telerik TV.

As a result quite a few of you weren’t able to attend. I received a lot of messages (such as the one below) as well as pings on twitter about it.