Double Entry Book keeping (Just in time for the Xmas shopping season ;-) Our December 13th meeting will focus on the programming challenges around implementing...
I've finally done the "thing so simple it's not worth doing" that's pushed me over the edge on TDD. It's pithy, stupid and dopey but it works wonderfully so I...
I lately come to one project with is doing fake agile. How do I reason with this? "I will write code first, then I will write unit test next week. So at the...
At this month's Extreme Programming San Diego (XPSD) meeting, Susan Elliott Sim will give us some insight into the user story research she and her group have...
Lining Up the Second Rail Chet Hendrickson December 4, 2007 With Ron out of town for the rest of the week, it falls to me to continue our Ruby/Rails quest....
We've recently switched to 1 week iterations. http://20.targetprocess.com/2007/11/yes-one-week-iterations-possible-in-web.html It will be good to hear other...
Dear All, I'm currently using RSpec of Ruby for BDD. But things that make me frustrated is how much and how deep I must write specification. For example, the...
Hello all, Just want to ask if there are any companies running agile methods in London. I want to come and visit them to see how stand-ups meeting held for my...
The subject of anchoring has come up in the discussions about estimates and project planning. My feeling is it has some relevance to XP. Anyway here's the ...
Can we get some content here rather than doing the "I'm right, no, I'm right" thing? FIT has its strengths and weaknesses, like every other tool out there, but...
... Is see two pretty strong conflicts of opinion here, so how about I try to write something both sides can agree with? *IF* you aren't programming in Java or...
http://idiacomputing.com/moin/DoneDone contains links to some of the best articles and blog entries I've found on Doneness. Does anyone have others that they...
Hi, There is a relatively new group called Agile-ANN, where we hope to draw a large crowd interested in Agile Announcements. The hope is that real discussion...
Okay, I am really having difficulty introducing myself to programming, and I was hoping some people here would be able to help. I have been interested in the...
Hello all, I am new in this group. I am PhD student and currently working on "Role of Developer in Stand-up Meetings". I just want some real life experiences...
I'm interested to know how an open-source project can work effectively without requiring contributors to run some form of programmer tests on code before...
Hi, The current team I'm working with has been tasked with replacing the UI of an existing system. I've been on a project that was doing similar things and...
Hi all, I would like to implement a bug management (with a standard or custom designed sw) interfaced to version control. The main problem is that I need to be...
... Just something I was thinking about the other day when I was reading the post about 1 week iterations with a web app and the issue of testing and then...
This is a reminder of the previously announced presentation on Wednesday, Dec. 5th by Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation: ...
I'd been a bit shy about asking this on a list with so many experienced XP people who'd no doubt rather talk about advanced stuff, but the recent "basic...
That's very business and buzz word sounding, I know, but I'm interested. I was in an interesting meeting this week were business, human factors, and technical...
Finishing Story One Ron Jeffries 11/19/2007 We review cards and letters, and we finish our first elementary story. We think we will start over. Oh, and my...
Hi all, The following training in Lean-Agile is available. I have personally chosen and supported these courses because I think they bring great value. I...
... Change of thread. Has anyone every experienced doing the riskiest thing first, and then discovering later that it wasn't needed? I was wondering, because I...
Do you use the Planning Game in the course of your project? If so, please tell us about it. If not, what sort of planning process do you use instead? Thanks, ...
