infinitest – Google Code I met Ben Rady at Agile 2008 and over lunch he explained how he can code and have continous testing happening in the background *as* he codes – no interruptions to his work unless a problem is found. Blew me away. Python people, try out his Python version and give him [...]
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Scrum-ban | Lean Software Engineering Applying Lean principles to the Scrum process. Agree with ideas on where waste can be removed. Well written. (tags: kanban scrum lean)
Read MoreScrum The Mythical Product Owner role | Xebia Blog Explains how he has observed the PO done, and concludes by how it should be done, though there are few who are truly great Product Owners (tags: scrum productowner) Scrum Log Jeff Sutherland: What to do when Sales guys are Waterholics … Scrum applies to the [...]
Read MoreThis post is an assemble of notes from sessions at Agile 2008, including Paving the Way for Agile Testing, Expanding Agile Horizons, The Five Dimensions of Systems by Mary Poppendieck, Natural Laws of Software Development – Deriving Agile Practices by Ron Jeffries & Chet Hendrickson plus keynotes from Uncle Bob Martin (Quintessence) and Alan Cooper [...]
Read MoreThese are notes and video taken from the highly entertaining Agile 2008 session Effective Pairing: Good, Bad and the Ugly. Thanks to Ryan Hoegg, Lasse Koskela, Dave Nicolette, Brett Schuchert for letting me capture them on video. These four guys acted out personalities, scenarios and pitfalls that can occur with pair programming, each skit followed [...]
Read MoreThese are notes from Jeff Sutherland‘s Agile 2008 presentation “Money For Nothing and Your Change For Free: Agile Contracts“. Jeff summarized his talk in this way: “The “Money for Nothing” strategy works when customers want fixed price estimates for the entire contract up front. The Agile contract allows termination of the contract early when the [...]
Read MoreNotes taken from Agile 2008 sessions on distributed Agile: “What Makes Distributed Agile Projects Succeed (or Fail)?” workshop by Chris Sims and Panel discussion on troubleshooting distributed agile team projects Things panel found most surprising about distributed Agile (DA) There are people at the other side! DA can work well once the proper process and [...]
Read MoreOkay, round 3 of the Agile 2008 session picks. Agile 2008 is the premier conference of the Agile world. There are about 400 different sessions to attend, which is why I’ve taken about 2 days to wade through all the options. Earlier I posted my faves for Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday Early Morning New arrows [...]
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