apologies to all of those of you on digest, i had forgotten how irritating it is having all the old posts attached at the bottom as i don't read many lists in...
"What if we took the highest performing computer scientists and found out how their minds worked? What if we modeled the way they looked at problems and...
It's SIG time again. eXoftware and Iona present the second Irish XPSIG. Following from the first successful SIG, where we had over 90 attendees, we will be...
After an extended (two month) absence from the XP world, I am back. I have had the opportunity to digest the discussions I have had with Ron Jeffries and...
Another interesting passages from the article: "Unfortunately, the Agile methods with their change-embracing philosophy have downplayed the need to control...
I rather do it in person too. I avoided the text chat here because of the extra communication context gained by hearing the intonations of the other person's...
All, What is the general feeling towards people working on solo projects using XP principles (obviously pair programming goes straight out of the window) but...
VB is essentially a plain text format like most other languages, it's not stored in a database like the VisualAge tools from IBM. So you could in theory edit...
OK. OK... I have also seen real bad Java code. But not as bad as some VB code I have seen in a project I took the lead in 1994 or 1995. It was a executive...
... Or two... one for small "r" and one for big "R". They would both be helpful, but for obviously different reasons. :) (Oh, come on! Who could resist that?!)...
How many of you write unit tests where you pass nulls in as arguments to your methods and test for the response? Do you find these tests beneficial, worthy? ...
I agree. I see three basic levels of project from a ceremony perspective: - just enough documentation is prepared for the developers - enough documentation is...
... And be prepared to adjust that, as your developers' priorities change in the long run, or as new members with different priorities join the team. ...
We've been using a PHP driven web interface onto a SQL database to store our user stories. Idea generation and exploration is very important to our future...
In http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/35000 James Goebel wrote: If as a business person I can only have my "well designed" system...
XP Denver's November meeting is next Monday, 11/19, at the Qwest auditorium in downtown Denver. Visit www.xpdenver.org and the XP Denver Yahoo Group for more...
A couple new articles: Agile Project Management, XP Style http://users.vnet.net/wwake/xp/xp0111a.shtml A non-technical description of the planning game. My...
Ooops! We've had a late withdrawal. Mr. Gale will not be able to make this presentation this month. So, we're asking anyone attending to come prepared with...
Hi y'all, I'd like to ask the project managers out there, how do you see your role in an XP project? What tasks do you perform? What responsibilities do you...
... XP: Writing a simple answer for a class assignment on the very first day it is assigned, and then continually researching and improving the paper until the...
The next meeting for the North of England XP User Group (second meeting) is tonight. All are welcome. We just get together and chat about our XPeriences ...
It's time for our monthly meeting. Paul Gale will "be giving the demonstration of the release planning game as given by Ron Jeffries at XP Immersion (with his...
We are kicking around the idea of implementing XP. One question that has surfaced: "How does a simple XP solution fit in with the idea of a class library, ...
... I did a one-person project recently where I tried to use XP. I used index cards to sort out priorities. I used test-first-design and merciless refactoring...
I've lived this nightmare, it was a disaster. Private branches seem to be in direct opposition of continuous integration. ... [Non-text portions of this...
I've been working on a project for a couple of months. I'm not working in an XP shop, but I've been trying to apply at least _some_ of the principles. The one...
I have already posted describing how I am "leading" a team of 2 - myself and another programmer - and trying to implement XP practices, including test first...
