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Comment on 2009-09-15 Planning Session Results by dpwhelan

dpwhelan — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:20:46 +0000

Connie, the document was saved as a Word 2007 version (.docx extension). I have added another link with a Word 97-2003 version that should work better for you. Let me know if that works!

Cheers,

Declan

Comment on 12 Adoption Failure Modes – Barry Mullan, Rally Software by Connie August

Connie August — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:00:25 +0000

One of the attitudes I’ve observed over the years is that any good should be able to multi-task. Developers, project managers, product managers, etc. are asked to focus on several things at once. At one point, I was advised to not discuss the option of focused effort since that was a “career limiting move”.

It is an interesting dilemma:
Multi-tasking over several large, monolithic projects.

I am looking for various ways to overcome this attitude, but it can be a tough perception to change.

Comment on 2009-09-15 Planning Session Results by Connie August

Connie August — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:42:23 +0000

I tried to download the Word version and have not found the encoding that makes it readable. Can you confirm the link?

Comment on 2009-06-16 Agile in the Large by rslittle

rslittle — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:59:43 +0000

Very informative. Real world experiences help orient the theory with practices on the ground.

Comment on 2009-05-19 Test Driven Development/Design by Barely Have Time for Bullets at the flying squirrel

Barely Have Time for Bullets at the flying squirrel — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:44:03 +0000

[...] I went to the Communitech Agile group’s Test-Driven Development Coding Dojo and was actually convinced to get on the keyboard. Good discussion followed, including a book [...]

Comment on Books on Agile Testing by Ron Leisti

Ron Leisti — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:49:17 +0000

I’ve found “TDD By Example” (Beck) to be a very readable, short, useful and inspiring introduction not only to the practice of coding test-first, but also to the best ways of writing tests.

I’d recommend anyone read that book first before delving into xUnit testing patterns (which is a more thorough library of testing do’s and don’t’s).

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321146530/qid=1077822818/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_11_1/026-5985556-2226861

Comment on Agile Testing by Output from our Session on Agile Development « Waterloo Agile Lean

Output from our Session on Agile Development « Waterloo Agile Lean — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:23:27 +0000

[...] Lean P2P group « Agile Software Engineering Practices class in Cambridge Feb 5,6 Agile Testing [...]

Comment on 2009-01-20: Agile Estimating and Planning by dpwhelan

dpwhelan — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:01:58 +0000

Note that Jeff had planned to write this session up but unfortunately is still recovering from pneumonia.

However, if you are interested the game we played was called the XP Lego game and you can find out more about it here: http://www.magpiebrain.com/presentations/the-lego-xp-game/.

Comment on 2009-01-20: Agile Estimating and Planning by dpwhelan

dpwhelan — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:39:56 +0000

Note that we are at MKS rather than the accelerator centre!