Working with a client this week, I got a wild idea for how to manage the backlog for a team that serves many customers. I wrote it up today. Please check it...
A simple way to improve a boring presentation: reverse it. Most people get it backwards. They output (teach) in the reverse order that they input (learn). ...
How long would it take to stop all development and redesign/rewrite all the parts of the app the team feels is poor? How long would it take to refactor just...
Todd, I guess the first question I would(will) ask is "Are you yourself a programmer?" I know this sounds silly, but many PM's are not. You have touched on a...
Plagiarism is highly agile! I'll follow suit with my good friend (and colleague) Dave :=) Here is an issue on process and tools... "Tools and Agile Processes: ...
Hi, I am luck enough to have been given the job of XP Coach for a team of 10 programmers that are learning XP as they go. The team has a feeling that we are...
FYI: http://www.thecoadletter.com/issues/testdriven/coadletter-testdriven-095_why_test.htm Enjoy & share Dave PS. If you have something to say about TDD,...
(original post appears after my reply) They forgot option 3...leave the tests there, delete the class and write it themselves. Complaining about having to...
... Thats true but a couple of points. If you decided to generalise from the beginning you would have had to invest a lot of time 'understanding' the weapon...
How do you teach people how to evolve design test first? Some of my team have little design experiance, and so fail to spot refactoring that I would think of...
Cute! Hey Laurent, I heard there is a new beach in Paris, have you been to it? I know its way off topic, but you're the only Parisian I know, and I was...
...echoes a thread that went on for quite some time on the list a while back : http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20020805.html Priceless. ...
Isn't there any mean to bounce the crab mail this group is receiving this weekend? How can an egroup subscribe to an email distribution list, as one of the...
XP minifaq: <http://homepage.mac.com/keithray/xpminifaq.html> Extreme Programming (XP) is a set of principles and practices for developing software. It has...
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Everyone: Just a quick "thank you" to OM for hosting us tonight. It was great to meet some people I hadn't met last year and some new people I'd never seen...
... <<Good start, but not yet clear to me. Plus I would like to explore polymorphism for as an example of isomorphy.>> Polymorphism and isomorphism have...
... ... I think Dan meant to write "horrified" not "modified";. Quite a different meaning. ... <<No journal entry is ever destroyed, or changed.>> I tried to...
Hello all, I have an opportunity to develop an internal University-type program to ramp up an existing team on new technologies. This includes everything from...
People need to throw away this concept that everything in programming is good at doing any job. Different languages are good for different things. That said,...
BOFs are "Birds Of a Feather" sessions - informal meetings on a topic you choose. At XP/Agile Universe, there are lunch-time slots for BOFs. We'll have tables...
... Are most combinations ok, but there are a few exceptions? Or is it more random? (Pick any one of these 5000 valid settings) Or is there more structure that...
