Tuesday, November 11, 2014

History of agile

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This is for those who think that Agile is a recent evolutionary advance in software engineering. It is not. Before the 1990s, a great many -...
Thursday, November 6, 2014

The horrible state of open source tools

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Are you kidding me??? Recently I wrote a performance testing tool in Ruby and I have been rewriting it in Java. The tool uses Cucumber , s...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

Tests Do NOT Define Behavior

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Last spring one of the gurus of the Ruby world set off an earthquake when he published a blog post titled, "TDD is dead. Long live test...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

To Be Certified – Or Not?

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Recently in the LinkedIn group “Agile”, Alan Moran posted a question, “ How valuable is agile certification to you? ” The general consensus...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Why private offices are important for programmers

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Around the year 2000, the company that I had co-founded in 1995, Digital Focus, went agile. We adopted eXtreme Programming (XP). We therefor...
Friday, November 29, 2013

Are agilists turning their backs on the very technologies that their clients are building?

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I remember three decades ago standing in the bookstore of my university reading sections in a new - and first ever - textbook about the desi...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

The Emperor has no clothes: Verbal communication is NOT more effective than written communication

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It is not true that people communicate better in person that in writing. The preference for face to face meeting over written communicatio...