One year ago Jeff Sutherland came to our company and certified 20 of us as Scrum Masters. We have had an amazing year of progress following that original training and have spread Scrum throughout the organization. Scrum is now the standard way we get things done as an organization. Last night Jeff arrived in Boise […]
Read MoreBuilding abstraction layers into your application is a good thing, right? By the way, building only enough software to deliver to requirements provides the highest value. Also, make sure that when you add functionality to your application, it doesn’t require a code change. But don’t try to predict the future uses of your application because […]
Read MoreI am working on a project in which I am diligently applying TDD. I am enjoying the process of actually driving my design with tests, as it as clearly saved my bacon already with discovering bugs in my class constructors. I am using ReSharper’s NUnit support + Matt Berther’s excellent TDD Live Templates over MSUnit, which is […]
Read MoreI have some objects I am serializing that have an ID property. The ID property is a GUID and I got to looking at the nature of the System.Guid class during this project. I gots me some questions. Constructor Madness Why is there a default constructor AND a static creator? Both of the following code […]
Read MoreOne highly touted benefit of Scrum and iterative development techniques is the speed with which teams can re-focus. I have seen teams successfully transition to a dramatically different projects over 2 workdays at an iteration boundary. Using the natural heartbeat of iteration boundaries allows teams to move between radically different projects and codebases with lower disruption costs. The Entropic […]
Read MoreI am working at home today and listening to Friday’s Talk of the Nation on NPR, which is the Science Friday edition. Today’s guest is John Maeda, author of the Laws of Simplicity, and founder of the Simplicity Consortium at the MIT Media Lab. John has published these 10 laws that are not only worthy […]
Read MoreTuesday was my birthday and my wife hit a home run. Check out my sweet new geek bike… Sweet bell Bike computer (speed, cadence, time, etc) Fat man seat Rear rack (for bulldog passenger seat) Headlight / taillight RAM Mount for my Treo or iPod Coffee mug That’s right! I rode down the street last […]
Read MoreWhat? Why in the world would you use Scrum for 2 people? Why not use XP and then you are inside each other’s head anyway? Let me essplain. Martin Danner and I recently became a team of 2 as the Software Architecture Team at Healthwise. For now, we even share an office. Although our projects are different, […]
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