The Methods & Tools newsletter has just released in its archive section the article "Agile Requirements" by Rachel Davies. This article explains the approach...
A look at the testing heuristic "there should only be one 'act' section per test." http://tinyurl.com/b6zn4 -- J. B. (Joe) Rainsberger Diaspar Software...
J.B. Rainsberger's "One-Act Play" article reminds me of some ideas I wrote down in "Single Assert Reconsidered". Interestingly both articles look at things...
I'm happy to announce that the AUP product is now available for download, free of charge, from http://www.ambysoft.com/unifiedprocess/agileUP.html . The AUP...
My November 2005 column entitled "Great Leaders are Made" is now online at http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=9907/sdm0511f/0511f.html . The column...
Making the Date Ron Jeffries 10/19/2005 It seems like every development project begins with the date, and we're held responsible for "making the date". Making...
hi ron, ... great article, and very timely for me. one small suggestion: what about changing the line: - They can't: they don't have enough ability to steer. ...
... And thanks! Hit enter a bit quickly there. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com If there's only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic....
Ron I wanted to commend you on the humour in your article. It wasn't long before i was chuckling away as i imagined a washing machine being held with its feet...
... Certainly. Credit me if you're successful with it. Otherwise it's yours. ;-> Any artists in the crowd? This calls for a cartoon. "Wash faster, you bastar'"...
RTF: Maximize Each Iteration Ron Jeffries 10/21/2005 Delivery of the running, tested, features the customer wants is the purpose of the development team....
The Methods & Tools newsletter has just released in its html archive section the article "Extreme Programming as Nested Conversations" by William C. Wake. This...
I just posted a short article at http://www.ambysoft.com/essays/bestPractices.html which argues that what traditionalists often consider to be best practices...
The AUP, http://www.ambysoft.com/unifiedprocess/agileUP.html, is a simplified version of the Rational Unified Process (RUP). The AUP product describes a...
At http://www.agiledata.org/essays/bestPractices.html I added an essay overviewing best practices for agile database development. These best practices are: 1....
I thought you just said that there were no such thing as Best Practices :)) ....which incidentally is remarkably similar to this article on the same subject......
Hi Scott, I have had a look at AUP and it seems that AUP is a light form of the EUP (Enterprise Unified Process). The trouble I have with AUP is that it does...
... I'd consider it a light form of the RUP, but it doesn't matter much. ... Yes, it's geared towards business application development. The goal of the AUP...
... I love it! Can I put it in the article? Where would you like me to link it to? Thanks! Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Do, or do not. There is no try....
Just thought you might like http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20051116.html My apologies if you receive this several times. - Scott ...
Some Thoughts on Extended Set Theory Ron Jeffries 11/17/2005 For some reason, I'm thinking -- at 2 AM -- about Extended Set Theory. An interesting topic, to...
Another in the series on Extended Set Theory XST: Complex Scope Ron Jeffries 11/21/2005 In which we discover that our implementation is "totally wrong" and we...
XST: A Little Help From My Friends Ron Jeffries 11/22/2005 One of the great things about writing these articles full of mistakes is that I get lots of useful...
XST: Improvements, We Hope Ron Jeffries 11/25/2005 I did an offline experiment to figure out what to do about this ... on that, we'll create a new little...