A you move ahead, keep in mind the following: * Never confuse the map with the journey – The project plan is only an outline (and a guess at that), so you should believe the team’s results and not the plans. Remember, it is the achievement of the objectives that …
Over the years I have come to describe Test Driven Development in terms of three simple rules. They are: 1. You are not allowed to write any production code unless it is to make a failing unit test pass. 2. You are not allowed to write any more of a …
We recently run a survey with readers of Methods & Tools to understand what stage is the agile approach (XP, Scrum, TDD, …) adoption at your location? (2005 results)
The thing I like about the pattern form is that it gives you a way to talk about the motivation for what you are doing. So there is a lot of Java style books, and good ones, out there people with lots of experience, people who’ve thought carefully about how …
I have been distraught at the level of dogmatism, bigotry, contempt, or just plain ignorance that I witness in the agile world. I am not blaming the topnotch agilistas, though they sometimes, and just for effect in writings and presentations, reduce their messages to their essential bones, to the slogan …
There are many configurations for developers to work together, but one of the common things that you will share with your colleagues is the toilet. Visiting the lavatories is also something that you will most likely to do every day. You could think of this as an intimate and mandatory …
