Posted in It's The Pitts on April 30, 2007 | No Comments »
The Way of Testivus - Unit Testing Wisdom From An Ancient Software Start-up offers some good advice on developer and unit testing, packaged as twelve fake, pretentious, and somewhat cryptic bits of ancient Eastern wisdom in the hope of getting your attention.
Posted in Simon's Soapbox on April 29, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Towards the end of the last meeting, Colin MacAndrew asked the group “Does the Agile Manifesto need refactoring?” and it was encouraging to see quite a few people leap to its defence. Now, Colin simply asked a question about whether it could be improved, he didn’t state that it needed to be re-written. And yet [...]
Posted in Simon's Soapbox on April 27, 2007 | No Comments »
If agile methods have crossed the chasm, then agility has reached a level of maturity. But we should never stop questioning our beliefs and we should continuously seek to improve the fundamentals of how we work so that we can adapt with more effectiveness.
With that in mind, I believe the purpose of our forum meetings [...]
