Archives for December 2008

The Illusions Created by "Working Hard"

George Dinwiddie, a wonderful blogger on Agile software development, wrote on “Working Hard? Or Hardly Working?”. Please read his blog and then you can read my comment below: Good day George, I read your blog all the time and enjoy what you write about. This blog entry caught my attention and I had to respond. [...]

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User Story Haiku

In a Certified ScrumMaster course this week one of the teams created some haiku on the topic of user stories. Here is what they came up with: INVEST your time in telling stories that give you meaning moving on… Unique perspective inward and outward focused simply understood The user wishes to do something on the [...]

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Top 25 Open Source Projects — Recommended for Enterprise Use

This is a bit off my usual topics on this blog but I am a heavy open source user and this article is something that I hope gets to more enterprise operations, managers and executives. I have been using and deploying production available applications using open source tools, libraries, and platforms for over 12 years [...]

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Executable Design — A New Name for TDD?

For multiple years now I have thrown around the name “Executable Design” to describe Test-Driven Development (TDD) and how it is used for design rather than a test-centric tool. The name itself causes problems for those who are initially introduced to the technique. As a coach I was looking for a way to introduce it [...]

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