I am both encouraged and disheartened by what I am hearing on the the subject of Agile these days. I got a large dose of the discussion in conversations and lectures at Tech Ed this year, and the blogsphere resonates with it every time you turn around. The Encouraging Dialog is beginning to focus on […]
Read MoreI finally got some time to look into Rhino Mocks 3.5 to see what is new. Lets say there are some interesting extensions to the library. OK, that was a bad pun that you probably didn’t get. A series of new extension methods were added. Lets take a look. Here is the list of some […]
Read MoreSome time ago Patrick Smacchia wrote a nice article on his blog about active conventions on your code base. I thought I tried this for myself and made up some interesting CQL queries. Suppose we want to enforce a BDD naming convention for every SetUp method. Such methods should be named Establish_context. The following CQL […]
Read MoreYou have to hand it to these people: they sure have to put up with a lot of crap. I’m also guilty as charged for this. I already wrote about a lack of real-world usability and best practices in the past. You probably heard about the ADO.NET Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence. The moment […]
Read MoreSome of us here in the Treasure Valley have decided to start a Boise chapter of the Agile Project Leadership Network. This is a group of people passionate about Agile and sharing experiences and best practices with each other. From the APLN website: APLN was founded in 2004 by a group of people who are […]
Read MoreI have just been accused of cheating at last week’s sprint review. Let’s see what you think. The way our sprint reviews work, everyone in the company gets to rotate between teams who show their work in 15 minute segments. Picture a science fair with parents moving between booths and spending 15 minutes at each […]
Read MoreSo we had a bit of a mix up last night. We thought we had a speaker arranged, but the speaker was arranged for next month. Opps. So we improvised and had the first ever NetDug Open Spaces meeting with about 30 people. We had pizza and when for about 2 hours. I think it […]
Read MoreI was fortunate to sit in a lecture today by Indi Young, co-founder of Adaptive Path and author of the recently published Mental Models, Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior. Ms. Young described her framework for constructing Mental Models, which are models representing a user’s thought process as they interact with a system. A Mental […]
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