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Essays from July 2006

5 essays from July 2006

1. 01

   Don’t stand there, just do it!

   Brian Marick in his blog talks about the trend he is noticing at Agile 2006 of people talking about leadership as the “silver bullet” to implement Agile (my interpretation). I could not agree more with this comment, that kind of leadership is not what Agile needs. Agile needs old-school managers to learn to stop wanting …

   26 July 20063 min read

2. 02

   We always tested/refactored, we just did not do it right or called it that…

   I was browsing the software blogosphere and ran into this post by David Chelimsky about why he started doing TDD and refactoring. I just could not help to see my own story in that post. Was it like that for you too?

   19 July 20061 min read

3. 03

   Chaordic projects and the empirical quest

   The scientific process relies heavily on empirical observations. We must, in the software development industry, also rely on empirical observations of successful software development projects and follow the learnings from those projects. With software development projects the hard part is that most of what happens is not quantifiable and if it were – by decomposing …

   17 July 20063 min read

4. 04

   At last, more on the XP 2006 conference

   XP 2006 Conference, Day 2 highlights During the second day in the conference I attended the scientific paper session in the morning. Of the three papers presented the most interesting was the one on TDD and the effects it has on how we develop code. The gist of the paper was that in order to …

   14 July 20063 min read

5. 05

   Hard value versus System value of Agile Methods

   First a clarification. I’ve used “hard” value as opposed to “system” value in this article, and my definitions are:“Hard value”: any value that can be or is systematically quantified in terms of money or time and normally focus on details (e.g. the value of TDD, the value of incremental development).“System value”: any value that can …

   14 July 20064 min read

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