Top 5 blog posts of 2013 - AgileDevTest

Just a little recap, It's been nearly 11 months since I started the AgileDevTest Blog.  This knowledge sharing and learning journey has been wonderful for me and hope my posts are informative to you.  In case you are not satisfied with any of the blog posts, as always, please feel free to post your feedback either as a blog comment or you can also contact me directly in my G+ account.  

As we are approaching the end of 2013, I just wanted to share the top 2013 blog posts of AgileDevTest Blog.  So here we go with the list

5.  Free Ebook for Beginner Programmers - Programmer's Motivation for Beginners

This blog post is about my free Ebook "Programmer's Motivation for Beginners".  More about this on the given link.  This post received good welcome and is #5 in AgileDevTest blog 2013.

4.  Attitudes of a Great Software Developer

This was my very first blog post in my own words.  I had a sense of feeling that Developers needed to have certain attitude if they had to classify as Developers, this blog post throws some light on those thoughts.  This is one of my personal best and it's #4 in AgileDevTest blog 2013.

Agile, Agile, Agile. What is so different about Agile for Developers and Testers?

The word Agile has taken the software world by storm.  Agile has grown well past it's hype cycle.  People have got increasing awareness about Agile, however doubts still remain in several minds especially developers and testers.  So what is so different about Agile and how does it matter if you are a developer or a tester?

Fast Paced Environment

Typically Agile Environments are fast paced.  It doesn't mean that there will be no breathing space.  No.  That is not the case.  In good Agile environments, the outputs are faster.  It takes lesser time to deliver same features in a good Agile environment.

More focused results

The problem with many focus is that they try to do too many things at once.  And many a times, multitasking is counter productive.  That is both true for an individual or a project.  So Agile puts more emphasis on providing proper attention to the things that really matter.

Focus towards customer rather than technical easiness

Given a choice between easy for the customer vs easy for us, we almost take the latter option.  And that makes sense sometimes, but not always.  However in Agile Projects, customers are kings and if there is something that will be easier for the customer, we will do that even though it means that it might not be technically easy.  There are of course technically infeasible aspects but that is a different point altogether.