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p&p Team Space
Today, I only have time for a short note. Rather than do anything technical, I figured I let people in on what is going on in p&p.A while back, Darrell Snow mentioned the new team-oriented...
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p&p Team Space Update
While we are still not moved in to the new space, a few folks are using their laptops to camp and it try out. I acquired a few candid pictures (thanks Steve Elston) to show off the new area.The above...
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Survey: Scrum Challenges
Here’s another survey, targeting Scrum. Let me know what your challenges with Scrum have been. Is there anything keeping you from using Scrum?What sort of show-stoppers have you run into?Did Scrum not...
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Presenting at the Agile 2006 International Conference
A while back, I mentioned the Agile 2006 Conference. At the time I was working on an Experience Report, "How Not To Do Agile Testing," which I'll be presenting at the conference. The paper highlights...
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How do you keep your daily stand-up on track?
This question came up recently, "How do you keep your daily stand-up on track?" I answered by sharing what worked for me.The way teams I have been on (and teams I have helped coach) kept things...
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Agile Game Development
Now this is an interesting article on applying agile development in a part of the industry that has not historically been agile. It also covers the basics principles of agile development and has a...
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Bad Agile Definitions
A friend of mine (John Boal) has created a site (The Committee for UN-SCRUM Activities) where he has the ultimate bad definition for the term "Agile":Agile1. The ability to use popular buzzwords like...
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Another Agile blog at Microsoft
I know that there a quite a few agilists at Microsoft. In my reading over the weekend, I saw this blog (Only Passionate People Win) by Young Joo, and I had to comment.Here are a few of his posts on...
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Agile 2006 Follow-up
The conference was good. The weather was way too hot, but that is another issue entirely. I attended a number of good sessions and a few dull ones. There was not really anything in the middle....
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Why Did I Go Agile? Part Three: Scrum
In my other posts in this series, I shared why I was open to trying agile ideas, and I discussed how and why I adopted TDD (Part One: An Open Mind and Part Two: TDD). At the end of the project cycle...
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"We are doing Scrum, BUT..."
Eric Gunnerson has a great post on ScrumBut. As a ScrumMaster (certified, certifiable, whatever) I agree with what he says completely. I've said it before when talking about Brad's ScrummerFall post,...
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Ideal Days Aren't...
Mitch has an interesting post (http://blogs.msdn.com/mitchl/default.aspx) that talks about ideal developer days, and he hits the nail on the head... There are no ideal developer days.... Ever....
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Acceptance Testing Guidance
On Monday, Grigori and I kicked off a new project: Acceptance Testing Guidance Actually, we kicked off a pre-project planning project. In two to three weeks, we need to decide if there is enough demand...
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ScrumBut
I worked on my first XP project with John Boal. He recently did a post on ScrumBut. I have mentioned ScrumBut and Scrummerfall before, but this is a good, quick read with a few good tips. A lot of...
View ArticleAcceptance Test Engineering guide Alpha Available
Last night I posted the Alpha version of Acceptance Test Engineering guide – How to Decide if Software is Ready for You or Your Customer to the Acceptance Test Engineering CodePlex community site....
View ArticleFinally, a common Service Locator
I know that this is old news by now, but Chris Tavares, Glenn Block, and a few others around here have been working with a number of folks from the wider .NET community to create a common wrapper for...
View ArticleHow to migrate from CAB/SCSF to Composite WPF
Blaine recently posted that there is a CAB to Prism Comparison Available on Codeplex. This links to Composite Application Guidance for CAB Developers, a download from the CompositeWPF community site....
View ArticleBack from vacation… and a lot has happened in the last week
I took a week off, which was good. I visited family and spent time relaxing and playing video games. (Fallout3 rocks so far!!). I got back this morning to hundreds of emails to go through. After...
View ArticleWhere is WCSF headed?
Blaine & I have been getting a lot of emails, messages, comments, etc about WCSF. There are a lot of people interested in a public statement from patterns & practices about the roadmap for...
View ArticleWho is using WCSF?
Blaine and I would like to ask the community to let us know "who is using WCSF?" We know that WCSF has been fairly successful based on: WCSF has been downloaded a few times (ok, it is really many...
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