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February 2013 ~ IMistaken
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Agile Software Development, Automated Unit Testing (TDD), .NET. Wednesday, 27 February 2013. Must Testers know how to Program? One of the most common question that rises when talking to testers in an Agile context is. 8220;Does testers have to posses programming skills in an agile team? For a long time my answer to that was no, since testing includes vast number of activities which doesn’t require programming skill there will always be room for testers who cant program. Here’s an interesting post. That b...
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September 2012 ~ IMistaken
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Agile Software Development, Automated Unit Testing (TDD), .NET. Thursday, 20 September 2012. Want to be a speaker at the upcoming Agile Practitioners Conference in Israel? I’m so pleased to tell you that we will be running the second Agile Practitioners conference at the end of January 2013. If you want to help us make this conference just as great, please help us gather the best content out there. Specifically, if you have a new idea, thought or experience to share drop at :. View my complete profile.
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October 2013 ~ IMistaken
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Agile Software Development, Automated Unit Testing (TDD), .NET. Friday, 11 October 2013. To every Myth there is always an equal destructive (Stupid) and opposite counter Myth:. Here are some Examples. You do not need to design up front. Design is a one time effort which is best done before you start. You need to design some of your system up front and some of your system as you go. How much you need atg each stage depends upon your understanding of the problem, you technical skills and your system.
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November 2011 ~ IMistaken
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Agile Software Development, Automated Unit Testing (TDD), .NET. Monday, 7 November 2011. Agile Practitioner IL – Fourth Meeting. I had much fun at yesterday meeting. I really liked the amount of questions and interest people showed. While they didn’t make my life easy, I really enjoyed the conversation and discussion. For those who missed here are the slides. Agile in unfriendly territories. Hope to see you all again net month and of course at the Agile Practitioners 2012 conference.
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Scrum is not a process ~ IMistaken
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Agile Software Development, Automated Unit Testing (TDD), .NET. Monday, 31 March 2014. Scrum is not a process. One of the most common discussion that always seem to pop up. Again an again, is whether Scrum /Agile is good or bad. I don’t know why but in most cases it’s starts with a claim that Scrum is not good since it … and then state a reason. (or with the claim that Agile is dead),for example. Scrum as a Framework. Scrum is just a tool. But a tool for what? Normally this means, that in the process of ...
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October 2011 ~ IMistaken
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Agile Software Development, Automated Unit Testing (TDD), .NET. Thursday, 27 October 2011. The forces against an agile contract. The power of Inertia. People don’t change easily. The fact that our industry has been using a “Fixed …” contract for several decades now goes against trying anything else. Especially if that something else is substantially different. An agile Contract is exactly that. Different. Posted in: Agile practices. Wednesday, 26 October 2011. Can you spot the Contradiction? Experience i...
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September 2011 ~ IMistaken
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Agile Software Development, Automated Unit Testing (TDD), .NET. Wednesday, 7 September 2011. Agile Practitioner IL - 3rd Meeting. Sunday evening we met for the 3rd time. This time Roy Osherove. Discussed 10 mistakes team leaders make. An updated version of the slides can also be found here. During the talk Roy mentioned several books, out of those I really recommend Johanna Rothman and Eshter Derby, Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management. Scrum Master vs. Team Leader. Don’t really know. The onl...
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June 2012 ~ IMistaken
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Agile Software Development, Automated Unit Testing (TDD), .NET. Saturday, 30 June 2012. A couple of years ago I had the luck to attend a course given by Ken Swchaber. during that course Ken pointed that the main role of the Scrum Master in a scrum process is to ensure visibility. On all Levels. But why is visibility so important? Today, I happened to tune in into a TED session about Four principles for the open world. Want to adopt Agile and don’t know where to start? Click here to learn. On Sunday 1/7 I...
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Creating a Mini-Waterfall ~ IMistaken
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Agile Software Development, Automated Unit Testing (TDD), .NET. Friday, 19 July 2013. Some people refer to sprints as mini-waterfalls. Well that’s a mistake, sprint are not. That But a mistake or not, doing a Mini-Waterfalls still seem to be a natural step for some people when they start with their Agile transformation. So how do you create a mini-waterfall? Well its not very hard like anything else when you create a mini-X you start by taking the X for example:. See where this is going? Mini-Waterfalls ...
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July 2012 ~ IMistaken
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Agile Software Development, Automated Unit Testing (TDD), .NET. Saturday, 7 July 2012. Why should you become Agile. I believe that a developer work should be one filled with the joy of creation. When I started out to become a programmer I thought that it would be great. my work will be filled with:. Joy of creation when working on building a solution to other people problems. Moments of joy when completing new things and releasing them to the market. Moments of satisfaction from work well done. Its frigh...