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Essays from April 2007

2 essays from April 2007

  1. Patterns of Agile adoption

    During XP 2006 in Oulu, Finland. I attended a session jointly hosted by Amr Elssamadisy and Ahmed El shamy on patterns of Agile adoption. There are now a few articles about that and other sessions that Amr has held in other conferences. You can check the paper on “Functional Testing: A Pattern to Follow and …

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  2. Simple estimations work. Use the data you have available

    I very often hear the “estimations” conversation. People are so infatuated with the estimations that they forget to look at the actual data. By data I mean what they have been able to accomplish in the past. When we were lost in the dark ages of Waterfall and it’s Linear Pseudo-iterative friends (like RUP) we …

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