Roy has a pretty thoughful post on the barrier to entry for most developers with Test-Driven Development. I hope I am not doing Roy a disservice by summarizing it as: we have made TDD unapproachable to many by making it more and more complex. I would agree with many of the points that Roy makes about...

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 (chickens, stakeholders). I take issue with...

Over on the altnetconf list the question arose as to where you start when implementing agile within an organization. The first thing to bear in mind is that you probably want to avoid implementing all the practices, at the same time. This is likely to cause you to fail, because your attention will be...

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 leave behind some sort of formal document). Mostly...

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 wrangle some ill-defined stories into the standard...