Greetings, I am pleased to announce that Jeffrey and I have officially started offering a cool service to people that are looking for advice on their ...
Great blog post by Jim Shore: http://jamesshore.com/Blog/The-Decline-and-Fall-of-Agile.html Covers a lot of the same ground as the "Is Scrum Evil?" session...
 Interesting article.  At Agile 2008, there seemed to be a lot of hybred teams - scrum teams adopting test first, pairing, automated acceptance tests. Or...
Awesome article! I once heard someone telling me that he doesn't believe XP is agile because it enforces too many practices, which hinder and slow down teams....
Let's be honest now. Many teams that say they're doing TDD, refactoring, CI and OO design are kidding themselves. I've coached a lot of teams in the last few...
Exactly! I was mildly appalled that Stackoverlow had this question on TDD Anti- patterns when of course the elephant in the room is teams not actually doing...
... I agree. Most teams I come to have simply never ever experienced working in a well-maintained, well-designed codebase, so (a) they don't know that they're...
... To riff on the "Total Programming" from your blog, it is much easier to understand what this means if you watched those 70s Dutch teams play. Watching...
The problem's been compounded in recent years by programmers who missed out on this grounding in design going on to inlfluence younger programmers entering the...
But who are the masters? How do they know who to trust and whose example to follow if they don't know any better? Â We have a lot of self-proclaimed masters...
... I always thought it was a real shame this idea (for a Masters of Fine Arts in Software) never took off: http://simonwillison.net/2003/Oct/3/mfaInSoftware/ ...
Greetings, I finally uploaded my pics from CITCON Amsterdam back in October. http://flickr.com/photos/pauljulius/sets/72157610769419990/ Remember that we also...
hm...I am not convinced that 'studying the masters' or defining 'masters of fine arts' is necessarily such as good idea. In 19th century France (presumably...
Hello All, I realize that Microsoft technologies are a bit under-represented in the CITCON group, but I just wanted to make a quick announcement that my ...
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Hello, Let's drive on this analogy: what makes a good artist good ? It's the 'eye of the beholder': an artist is deemed good once a large enough body of people...
... Same in the Netherlands and Belgium. Vincent van Gogh tried art school a few times, and got kicked out... Once upon a time, I went to an exhibition of...
... <snip> ... yes. and scary :) ... Now that you mention it. Same in my 6 years at university (I have seen people prove theorems live though ;) ). Last year I...
... Good question... Not sure if it is completely, but a lot depends on the context and the culture the beholder and the code find themselves in :). Some...
... Did you want to share something on this list about TFS, and why anybody would use it? CruiseControl.NET still seems to be prevalent out there in my...
Julian Simpson
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Dec 7, 2008 4:16 pm
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The main selling point that Microsoft is touting is the integration story ... that is, the version control, work item tracking, build, and reporting components...
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... I'd argue that ill-structured acceptance tests don't scale. If the team doesn't write its test code at least as carefully as its production code it's...
Julian, CruiseControl.NET and TFS are not really competition so I am not sure I understand your question (or his reason for advertising TFS to a continuous...
Hi, I'm curious about people's opinion of one of my recent blog posts on agile software development and professionalism: Writing code without following certain...
A more accurate title might have been "The Decline and Fall of the Agile Brand". Agile is good yeah; but what is it? It is not a strategy, technique, approach...
Gough, Chris
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Alex, For now, I'd agree, - we have more than a few customers using TFS these days for issue tracking and source control but Anthill for builds. Microsoft...
Hi, I've been looking for the name or rather the words that describe a learning model / principle which I'm sure was mentioned on this list. It's a short - I...
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