I now have another website now exclusively for agile definitions apart from my personal blog.
I often get asken similar questions an what a certain term means in Agile practices when i am out teaching / coaching on agile teams. I have started keeping a catalog of these questions that have been asked in teams before instead of thinking or making up something each time.
They are all intentionally small so that you can easily print them out.
Feel free to send me more definitions you want to add.
Pun intented here.
If you do a lot of pair programming think again
here are some reasons why you should use your own keyboard at all times:)
1) Your pair has a virus ( real kind ) and is sneezing all over the keyboard
2) Your pair had a flu and is recovering from it.
3) Your pair is holding fries in one hand as he./she types and uses the keyboard with the same hand . Umm french fried keyboard.
4) You turn your pairs keyboard on the side and see all the food particles and dandruff fall.
5) Your pair went to the bathroom * enough said:)
If i have convinced you enough carry your own keyboard for pairing sessions and use purell when in doubt:)
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For those of you that missed the Live earth concert, MSN has most of it live. Two hours have rolled by and I am hooked to the concert.
SOS all starts, Paoloa Nutini and i guess many many more to come.
Check it out.
If you are interested in scrum as an agile practice or a practicing scrum engineer , then this book Scrum from the trenches is a must read.
I have been practicing so many forms of scrum like practices over the years. Most of them are some form of iterative , XP like processes. What I find interesting is why do companies stress so much over a process. Time and again i have seen that in the end the only thing that matters is how good, dedicated, fun loving, hardworking and smart your development team is.
All other factors process, tools etc are just means to achieve the end goal. You could have the best possibe process scrum, waterfall, no process, etc etc.
Scrum masters, project managers please note:
Build your team. Make it interesting. Give them responsibilities , trust them. Just keep monitoring and help the team keep focus.
When building a team pay attention to the team factor. Would she or he fit in the team. The first few times you see that the developer is not fitting in the team for whatever factors, change them.
Every person fits in certain kinds of teams. I think in playing this game of process process, we tend to forget that we are all human first ,developer next. if someone does not fit in a team, thats not the end of the world. Change the team. Hear to the team members.
The team is all you have for a successful project. Go Team:)
I happened to sit through and watch this conversation between Senator Hilary Clinton with CEO, Eric at Google at a women@google series. Must see if you 45 minutes.
The last section on ideas of senator Clinton for Goolers seemed interesting.
Thoughtworks is coming out with a product called Mingle ( like Rally ). I seem to like the simple fact that you can view story cards and move them around and its free for open source projects. Something to watch out for.
http://studios.thoughtworks.com/mingle-project-intelligence/a-quick-tour
Today i was involved with an install of subversion on Suse Linux. What a breeze. Took less than an hour to set up, integrate with Apache and so on.
Initially i got misled by some google articles including this on at this location. Not that accurate
But once i found out the location of the subversion docs /usr/share/doc/packages/subversion/it was just following the lines.
For those of you installing follow this instead of any google search tips. May save some time.
And just for the recods I am very impressed with Suse. I was runnign on Red hat for years. Recently i switched to Suse and use the Gnome desktop now. Wow havent things changed a lot.
Here is a funny attempt by a team mate today to increase test coverage in my team:)
You better watch out,
You better not cry,
Better not pout,
I’m telling you why:
UnitTest Claus is coming to town.
He’s making a list,
And checking it twice;
Gonna find out
Who’s naughty and nice.
UnitTest Claus is coming to town.
He sees you when you’re sleeping.
He knows when you’re awake.
He knows if you’ve been bad or good,
So be good for goodness sake!
Oh, you better watch out!
You better not cry.
Better not pout,
I’m telling you why:
UnitTest Claus is coming to town.
UnitTest Claus is coming to town!
I am still working on moving over my blog to this site. Please bear with me as i get through this process. What you see now are some really old articles.
