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The term just reeks of steady state management. I find the idea of an "Agile shop" or an "Agile team" is a little misleading and misses the point. What we want is an "Agile organization." The main feature of Agility, to me...
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I'm drilling pretty deeply into Lean these days. Scott Bellware turned me on to some of the more primary sources about lean manufacturing (Ben Scheirman does a good job of summarizing these books based on a recent conversation at ALT.NET). Since then...
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In my last post I offered a concise snapshot of how I'm practicing Behavior-Driven Development. Based on feedback, it was probably a little too concise and meta to provide any kind of valuable takeaways or discussion points, so I'm going to unpack...
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The "in breakfast there are chickens and there are pigs" analogy is a popular one in Agile circles. It refers to the idea that in a given project there are people who are fully committed (pigs, developers) and people those who are merely invested...
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I was running through a group talk I do at the recent Philly CodeCamp (which was a huge success by the way, special thanks to Brian Donahue for doing the heavy lifting in organizing an ALT.NET track) and we were ping pong pairing on the well known bank...
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I'm preparing a chunk of code for open source release in January. Among many other things it has a persistence layer wrapper with a "provider" for NHibernate, yet another validation framework, and a few goodies for building smart clients...
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Themes are categories for user stories. You use them to aggregate user stories into cohesive buckets. The following stories, taken from my product backlog at Xclaim (my company), could be said to fall into a "security" theme: As a user, I want...
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Why is deployment so hard? Where is my Agile deployment?! Chad Myers wrote about using XML configuration and stored procedures to monkey patch fixes in the production environment on the ALT.NET mailing list: Talk about dysfunctional, but we’ve learned...
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Tom Opgenorth opines and asks about technical documentation on the ALT.NET list : ...on this contract I'm leaving, there really isn't a lot of staff, nor is there a lot of format familiarity with some of the design patterns (hence my desire to...
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Today we had our iteration planning meeting. It was a long one as we're trying to sharpen our user story technique and are switching estimation methodologies from hours to "story points" or "NUTs" (back to them). We managed to...
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Jeffery Palermo's just posted his clarification of the ALT.NET idea . I think he did a great job of explicitly separating values from examples. I also really like his call out of joy as an important value to consider going forward. Joy was a motivation...
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I've really been digging on the game Skate , a fantastic skateboarding simulation with incredible game play. Meanwhile in the coding/learning slice of life, I've been working through Agile Web Development With Rails the cover of which features...
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