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Big-bang rewrites (even with AI) just create tomorrows legacy code base faster

[A Personal Retrospective on the Agile 2009

Even if you haven't been laid off, I would start preparing now. You should start building

Strong language like 'Rotten Apple' implies you're already convinced

- Does TDD really work? I've written about this before: [Advantages of

Games that demonstrate process improvement, early delivery, small batches, and cross-functional benefits

A few years ago [Bas Vodde](external:https://twitter.com/basvodde?lang=en) defined a simple test to

A few weeks ago I ran my first Coding Dojo/Randori and

We ran our first TDD Randori session at lunch

I keep on stumbling across posts about Agile 2008 and thought it might be worth sharing.

I already wrote about my top sessions for InfoQ so I will just link to them instead of

At Agile 2007, I attended Jean Tabaka's (author of [Collaboration

Effective coaching requires recognizing conflict levels, balancing skills/challenges

Let's start by looking back to where this idea stems from. As best I can tell objections

- Why do you need this boolean named retVal? Could it be eliminated the use of early

As it stands today the [Catalog](external:https://scrumcommunity.pbwiki.com/Scrum+Smells) contains

Collective Code Ownership isn't chaos, but team-based responsibility with shared standards

Don't estimate task hours It doesn't work

However in using a tool we miss the benefits of cards posted on a whiteboard/corkboard in

Code Reviews mostly find problems that good tools could spot. Pairing changes that

Meetings need simple ground rules and a clear agenda

Working at a distance is hard. There is a reason all the Agile methodologies recommend

Why Does Scrum work? Why do any of the Agile methodologies work? How does Scrum help teams