Archives for the 'Agile' Category
Theory Of Constraints, Lean and Schnitzels
Roy gave me a copy of “The Cash Machine” Using the ToC for Sales Management. It is a good read, and it reminded me of the principals I learnt several years ago, although this book had a nice twist, and applied the ToC on a human process instead of the normal production line. (There are […]
Retrospectives should not be about sharing pain
Jason Yip has a great post: Retrospectives should not be about sharing pain
Retrospectives should not be about sharing pain and venting. Retrospectives should be about getting better.
So true.
How do we make sure that we are a problem solving culture and not a complaining one? We use the clearing technique. Every problem […]
Crossing the Chasm and Excellence
Roy sent me this podcast: The state of Alt.NET.
Although Scott Bellware seems to be angry about the state of things, I am actually seeing great progress in our profession, and the ALT.NET is one of them.
To the point I must agree with him about the following:
1. Alt.NET – you cannot be in the chasm […]
Unit Tests and Developers under Pressure
In TechEd 2008 David Platt interviewed Roy about the future of TDD. You should really view the Tech-Talk as Dave is really funny, although he does miss the number of possible TLA’s (which he recursively defines as a TLA = Three Letter Acronym) by 300.
About 5 minutes into the session David asks a key question: […]
The myth of integration tests
The question of what exactly is a unit test, is one that keeps on plaguing us as a community. I have heard many developers say “oh, no need to test that - its an integration test”.
Well - what is a unit test? and what is an integration test? Guess what: One programmer’s unit test is […]
Estimations and being Agile
There are quite a lot of information in the web about how to estimate tasks in an Agile environments - They are all based on dividing the task to small features and using a statistical technique to estimate the time. But these are quite complex and take allot of resources from the team, and at […]
Agile and Event-Driven Management
I have read an article on VentureHacks on Lean (Agile) Companies. In this article Agile = Less Waste
At Typemock we are take Agile development and being an Agile company seriously. In the development we use a scrum/XP hybrid and we use Event-Driven Management for the company. I will explain Event-Driven Management later, but I want […]
Future of Unit Testing and Economics
Euan Garden managed the PDC 2008 Panel Session on the Future of Unit Testing, and Andrew has made a short summary.
Unit Test => (Automated) Developers Tests
An interesting thought that come from listening to this panel is that there is a confusion about what unit tests are and I agree that we should really call it […]
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