Saturday, 30 August 2008
Well-factored code
Posted by Gus Power
We recently held a code review for a system we'll be working with intensely over the coming months. Like car parking spaces, desk moves, checkout queues and methodologies, code reviews are one of those things that tend to make normal, sane, rational people turn feral. It was important that the right tone be set so that everyone involved could engage constructively and with respect. In order to create a common understanding of what we were trying to achieve we kicked off with a discussion about what 'well-factored' code really meant, attempting to eliminate some of the subjectivity that typically surrounds this topic (checkout some of the discussion on the c2 wiki!). I threw together this mind map to give us something to use as a starting point:
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Friday, 29 August 2008
Planning game is getting too serious
Posted by Simon Baker
The team has taken the idea of planning poker a bit too far.
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008
Our values determine our personal discipline, focus and increase our abililty to succeed
Posted by agile skywalker
William W. Ward said:
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008
Welcome to Agile Skywalker
Posted by Simon Baker
I've invited our effervescent friend Nana Abban to contribute to the blog. Nana joined the crew a while back and we invited him to join us at Agile2008 where he did a splendid job drawing attention to us. Those of you at the conference will remember him as Agile Skywalker. That's him in the t-shirt. And that really is his job title.
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Saturday, 23 August 2008
Craftsmanship and Artful Making
Posted by Simon Baker
At Agile2008, in his banquet keynote, Uncle Bob proposed over execution" be added to the Agile Manifesto as the fifth value statement. I've blogged before about the lack of craftsmanship in software development and it continues to concern me.
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Monday, 18 August 2008
Sunday, 17 August 2008
Be honest about what you are then start climbing
Posted by Simon Baker
The InfoQ publication of Pragmatic Dave Thomas' talk: Herding Racehorses, Racing Sheep introduces the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition, which describes how people progress through levels of mastery in a subject:
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The natural laws of software development
Posted by Simon Baker
At Agile2008, I watched Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson talk about the natural laws of software development.
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