Four team building exercises that teach developers the value of process improvement, early delivery, small batches, and issues with specialization.
Notes from a Tool User
TDD Randori Workshop
A few weeks ago I ran my first Coding Dojo/Randori and while the participants learned from the session there had been a few key flaws: The problem was too big The problem was in a domain that was unfamiliar to everyone The facilitator (me) participated too much Ouch. It was true. This week we ran […]
Advantages of TDD
While Test Driven Development is challenging to learn on your own, TDD has tangible benefits that can’t be achieved by writing tests after the fact.
TDD Randori Session
My experience running a TDD Randori session, using Danilo Santo’s paper on Brazilian Coding Dojo as a guide. Inspired by Dave Nicolette’s session at Agile 2008.
Agile 2008 Post Roundup
I keep on stumbling across posts about Agile 2008 and thought it might be worth sharing. Karl Scotland: Agile Business Conference 2008 Review, Agile 2008 – Wednesday, Agile 2008 – Thursday, Agile 2008 – Friday Lyssa Adkins: Deep Learning at Agile 2008 Eugene Nizker: 7 Agile Leadership Lessons for the Suits Jeff Sutherland: Agile 2008 […]
Agile 2008 a Personal Retrospective
This was my second Agile conference and I was pleasantly surprised at just how well it went. For a gathering of 1600 people I was pleasantly surprised at how intimate it can be, I kept on running into many of the same people again and again. I already wrote about my top sessions for InfoQ […]
Meeting Ground Rules Updated
At Agile 2007, I attended Jean Tabaka’s session “Why I don’t like Mondays.” She recommended establishing ground rules for team meetings. We came up with these.
Coaching Self Organizing Teams
In the best session I’ve attended at Agile 2008 Joseph Pelrine talked about some of the ideas and science around self organization teams. The talk has an excellent subtitle “Hard science for soft skills”. I’ve already covered some of the presentation and exercises on InfoQ so I won’t repeat that here. Instead I will focus […]