Being an (ex) Karate instructor and a software engineer I think some of the Japanese lingo is quite analogous to coding, especially refactoring. One of the...
Hi All I'm really interested in this thread. I'm currently trying to build up an Agile Glossary of commonly used, generic terms, techniques and ideas. Anyone...
Having read the blog you could say that a Kata is an exercise and a Dojo is a training session. It may not convey every single nuance but at least it is...
Hello Andrew, Nick Malik - A Microsoft employee ehhh? I thought that only Apple had a employees who generated increasing stranger names for programs and...
Hi Rob, ... The term 'dojo' refers to martial arts practice rooms, and relates to the idea that continual practice of the basic 'moves' will lead to a high...
Hi Rob, I agree completely! It doesn't encourage anyone new to 'agile' methods and concepts if from the outset they are scared away by increasingly obscure...
Why is it that the agile community feels the need to use terms like "coding dojo" and a few others (I think they are all Japanese). Could someone define these...
Hi all, A quick final reminder about the next AgileNorth meeting, which is tomorrow (Monday 17th Feb) at UCLan in Preston. We're holding a "coding dojo", in...
Eighth International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and eXtreme Programming XP 2007 June 18-22, 2007 Como, Italy http://www.xp2007.org ...
Eighth International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and eXtreme Programming XP 2007 June 18-22, 2007 Como, Italy http://www.xp2007.org ...
Hi, Just a quick reminder that the next meeting is February 19th at UCLAN (directions can be found on agilenorth.net), doors open 6:30 for a 7pm start. We'll...
This should be well worth watching... Cheers, Kevin ... From: Ian Moss <email@...> Date: 01-Feb-2007 19:46 Subject: [GeekUp] Booch lecture at Man Uni -...
Hi Ben, First off I'd note that Scrum isn't really concerned with the nitty-gritty of development; it's more of a management framework, and has been applied...
Hi there folks. The question I have is relating to when people chose to bug fix in an Agile environment. For a traditional product company that has regular...
Hi Mark, Just trying to get a sense of what the group might prefer. No single location will suit everyone, but at least we'll be working with knowledge, ...
Kevin, OK, I'm being picky, but the voting page instruction and dropdown says "My Ideal Location..." rather than "The.." For example, My ideal (and maybe...
Hi all, February's meeting (Feb 19th) will be a coding dojo. I thought this time we might try to refactor the smells out of an existing piece of code -...
Excellent Andy - very interesting! Ant _____ From: agilenorth@yahoogroups.com [mailto:agilenorth@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Beacock Sent: 17 January...
I plan on attending (looking forward to it as it's been a while for me). I'll most probably blog about it within the next few days... Andy B. ... -- Andrew...
Early apologies from me, it's unlikely I will be able to attend the meeting at UCLAN tonight given my work circumstances today i.e. deadlines. Hopefully...
FYI... ... From: Keith Miller <K.Miller@...> Date: 15-Jan-2007 09:17 Subject: BCS/IET Manchester Turing Lecture 22 January To: BCSM&T Grady Booch is...
FYI, this may be interesting... ... From: Lisa Crispin <lisa.crispin@...> Date: 12-Jan-2007 18:13 Subject: [agile-testing] Fwd: REQUEST - Agile research:...
Hello everybody, Recently, the agile community propagates the use of automated acceptance tests to drive software development. This approach is called...
** Deadline postponed to January 26th, 2007 ** Eighth International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and eXtreme Programming XP 2007 June...
I'm currently on annual leave until Monday 08th January 2007. If you have an academic query please contact Laura Fishwick in our Department office -...
Hi all, and a Happy New Year to you, This month's meeting will be a re-run of the popular "I'm not a Bottleneck!" session from the conference, this time with...
Hi, Just a quick reminder that there will be no meeting in December. So the next AgileNorth event will be a re-run of the "Bottleneck" simulation on January...
