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Seems like Martin Fowler is adding more to the Scrum dogpile.  I have written about this concept here and here.  Again, I agree that it is up to us practitioners to make sure the technical practices are applied rigorously or you get a big Scrum mess.

… but don’t prohibit other people from giving it a try. I heard the MOST ignorant statement the other day while facilitating a workshop. “Pair programming is useful when you’re 23.  When you turn 24, there is no need for pair programming.” From the...

… they are too short. Mark Levison has posted an interesting article, Making TDD Stick, on InfoQ that covers some of my observations about how to sustain test-driven development (TDD) in an organization.  I have found the best way to teach TDD is to mentor\pair with an individual...

Spanish has an interesting word to explain the concept of “excessiveness” or “too much” – demasiado.  It can be used to talk about things, such as “Tenemos manzanas demasiadas”\”We have too many apples”, but interestingly enough it can also refer to people, as in “Él es...

“It’s odd to talk about the decline and fall of the agile movement, especially now that it’s so popular, but I actually think the agile movement has been in decline for several years now.” Check out the full entry on his site for more.  Not much I can add; I agree...

“Test-driven development [TDD] is dual-entry bookkeeping to prevent errors in your code.” I was lucky enough to see Uncle Bob give a presentation on TDD this week.  During his demonstration of the Bowling Game, I noticed he refrained from writing tests for the all the...

Last week we talked about Extract Method and why it is so important to know and love.  This week, we are going to discuss another very important principle in object-oriented design and how Extract Class can help us build and maintain better code. If you are familiar with Robert...

Coming off my last rant, I thought it might be valuable to the community if I were to blog on the various refactorings I felt software developers should be using if they consider themselves professionals. To that end, I am going to borrow the refactoring patterns from Martin...

I was writing some tests today around some legacy code (its about 2 weeks old and not written with TDD) and wanted to make sure that some method was called when the parent method was invoked.  Unfortunately, I was having some problems with getting RhinoMocks working.  Since I was...

… said Agitar CEO Jerry Rudisin from SD Times. “The practice works, but it hasn’t taken off as a mainstream practice.” In 2008, I find this quote surprising and saddening that we still do not have software developers recognizing the need for automated unit testing. Sure, a lot of...