Posts Tagged ‘agile’
Catia, thank you for inviting me to pair-write. Here is a story: I walk into my daughter’s bedroom. She’s only three so there is still time before she slaps her favourite band, actor or a Moominvalley character poster on the wall. So far we have been doing all the writing. There is her name in nice [...]
A company decides to follow the current trend and finally adopt this whole “agile” thing. They’ve been using the adjective for some time now in their job offers and eventually got some people who have done it before. The scrum framework is chosen, as the most popular, and instantaneously the project managers become CSMs, work [...]
When software development teams start with the practice of Continuous Integration (CI) coordinating check-ins and keeping the build clean can be a challenge. Some habits like making sure all unit tests pass locally, project builds correctly, and all relevant files are included, are not yet established. Introducing a simple build token is often helpful. This is how [...]
Three months ago we got a small gadget from our energy provider – a smart meter. I didn’t think of it much, but we’ve got it up and running and located it on the kitchen worktop right on top of the coffee maker. The coffee maker is broken anyway but it serves as a good [...]
First, there was the volcano in April and some speakers couldn’t make it to Atlanta so we had OpenVolcano 2010. This was just an appetiser. Today was another tasty bite, a conference at Bletchley Park organised by Karl and Rachel (to coincide with Agile Coaches Gathering), with a bunch of great presentations initially destined for [...]
