Shooting in All Directions Ron Jeffries 01/03/2007 Chet and I get together for the first time in 2007, to some useful effect. Also I try to provide a bit more...
Shooting for the Foot -- and Missing Ron Jeffries 01/03/2007 Today's plan was to write the acceptance test for another story, and make it run. The best-laid...
Hi all. Back on September 11, 2006, I started a new site called www.implementingscrum.com. My name is Michael Vizdos and I am a Certified Scrum Trainer; I am...
Hi all, As promised earlier, here is the latest article from www.implementingscrum.com. It talks about the journey that can begin once you are a CSM (Certified...
ShotDensityPassesTests Ron Jeffries 01/05/2007 A little experiment for confidence, and we make our Customer's Density test complete, and make it pass. The...
Shooting for Cleaner Code Ron Jeffries 01/08/2007 Last time, we jammed our new density code into the system, adding some incompatible methods and values. Today...
Shooting for Cleaner Still Ron Jeffries 01/09/2007 A few more notes from our friends, and a solo pass over the code. Redneck's last words? "Watch this!" ...
Shooting for Cleaner Code Ron Jeffries 01/15/2007 We get all the tests running after scaling to the unit square, and clean up the code substantially. Full...
A new item has been posted at InfoQ.com which might interest you: Cultivating Agile Attitudes by Dafydd Rees January 8, 2007 In this article, Dafydd Rees...
Shotgun: Improving the Drawing Code Ron Jeffries 01/23/2007 When we went to the unit square implementation of PatterningSheet and ShotPattern, we stopped after...
Shooting End to End Ron Jeffries 01/23/2007 We've been working for a couple of weeks of elapsed time now, we figure, so it's time to focus a bit more on end to...
This week I look at some pretty odd behaviors of Agile Teams. http://www.implementingscrum.com/cartoons/cartoons_files/implementingscrum-20070122.html - mike...
A new item has been posted at InfoQ.com which might interest you: Interview: Agile Thought-Leader Alistair Cockburn by Alistair Cockburn Jan 22, 2007 At...
Mike, Nice commics. Waterfall certainly isn't silent. It's a hurricane in there! I work in a mostly waterfall shop. It's mostly waterfall, except for what...
My January newsletter regarding agile requirements concepts went out the other day. It's posted at http://www.ddj.com/dept/architect/196902703?cid=Ambysoft if...
A new item has been posted at InfoQ.com which might interest you: Good Agile Karma bt Gunjan Doshi & Deborah Hartmann Jan 25, 2007 Agile relies heavily on...
A new item has been posted at InfoQ.com which might interest you: Case Study: Targeted Practice Adoption using Patterns by Amr Elssamadisy & John Mufarrige Jan...
A new item has been posted at InfoQ.com which might interest you: The Principles of Agile Design by Bob Martin Jan 30, 2007 Bob Martin of Object Mentor...
High-Altitude Pair Programming Record? Ron Jeffries 02/02/2007 With great courage and at great personal risk, Chet and Ron attempt a new world's record in...
One of the worst examples of corporate insanity happens after prototyping - almost certainly. Some brilliant mind thinks of a way to save money or deliver...
What is a prototype? Is it a means of testing UI concepts? It should not be usable anyway as it should not have anything but UI. Is it a means of testing some...
Amir's comment on your blog nicely states what would also be my position: A prototype should either be: 1. production worthy code on a thin enough slice to...
Hi Amir, thanks for the comment. I was referring to a prototype as a technical a way to test and convince the stakeholders that something is feasible (and that...
1 month (for the entire team?) to do throw-away works seems much too expensive to me. What would you have done if the prototype failed to work as well as ...
... it was not a throwaway. we threw away some software, but kept the knowledge - which was in this case much more important. and, seeing the prototype, the...
I did not realize that this particular prototype was done pre-project to win the business. In that case, it is not a waste for the customer - they were not...
A new item has been posted at InfoQ.com which might interest you: Kent Beck on Agile Adoption & Values By Kurt Christensen February 09, 2007 In an interview...
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