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How We Do Things - The Team Room

This content comes solely from my experience, study, and a lot of trial and error (mostly error). I make no claims stating that which works for me will work for you. As with all things, your mileage may vary, and you will need to apply all knowledge through the filter of your context in order to strain out the good parts for you. Also, feel free to call BS on anything I say. I write this as much for me to learn as for you. This is part 8 of the How We Do Things series. Everyone should basically know what a...

posted @ Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:30 AM | Feedback (1)

How We Do Things - Specification (Using the right tools)

This content comes solely from my experience, study, and a lot of trial and error (mostly error). I make no claims stating that which works for me will work for you. As with all things, your mileage may vary, and you will need to apply all knowledge through the filter of your context in order to strain out the good parts for you. Also, feel free to call BS on anything I say. I write this as much for me to learn as for you. This is part 7 of the How We Do Things series. This post was co-written with Cat...

posted @ Friday, November 13, 2009 9:42 AM | Feedback (0)

How We Do Things - Evolving our Specification Practice

This content comes solely from my experience, study, and a lot of trial and error (mostly error). I make no claims stating that which works for me will work for you. As with all things, your mileage may vary, and you will need to apply all knowledge through the filter of your context in order to strain out the good parts for you. Also, feel free to call BS on anything I say. I write this as much for me to learn as for you. This is part 6 of the How We Do Things series. This post was co-written on Google...

posted @ Thursday, November 12, 2009 4:59 PM | Feedback (2)

How We Do Things - Testing Part 2

This content comes solely from my experience, study, and a lot of trial and error (mostly error). I make no claims stating that which works for me will work for you. As with all things, your mileage may vary, and you will need to apply all knowledge through the filter of your context in order to strain out the good parts for you. Also, feel free to call BS on anything I say. I write this as much for me to learn as for you. This is part 5 of the How We Do Things series. In the last installment I talked...

posted @ Sunday, October 11, 2009 8:07 PM | Feedback (0)

How We Do Things - Evolving our TDD/BDD Practice

This content comes solely from my experience, study, and a lot of trial and error (mostly error). I make no claims stating that which works for me will work for you. As with all things, your mileage may vary, and you will need to apply all knowledge through the filter of your context in order to strain out the good parts for you. Also, feel free to call BS on anything I say. I write this as much for me to learn as for you. This is part 4 of the How We Do Things series. Today we're going to talk about...

posted @ Wednesday, October 07, 2009 11:17 AM | Feedback (0)

How We Do Things - Planning Part 2

This content comes solely from my experience, study, and a lot of trial and error (mostly error). I make no claims stating that which works for me will work for you. As with all things, your mileage may vary, and you will need to apply all knowledge through the filter of your context in order to strain out the good parts for you. Also, feel free to call BS on anything I say. I write this as much for me to learn as for you. This is part 3 of the How We Do Things series. In the last post I talked...

posted @ Tuesday, October 06, 2009 1:11 AM | Feedback (0)

How we do things - Evolving Our Planning Practice

This content comes solely from my experience, study, and a lot of trial and error (mostly error). I make no claims stating that which works for me will work for you. As with all things, your mileage may vary, and you will need to apply all knowledge through the filter of your context in order to strain out the good parts for you. Also, feel free to call BS on anything I say. I write this as much for me to learn as for you. This is part 2 of the How We Do Things series. Introduction Planning is a key part of...

posted @ Monday, October 05, 2009 10:33 AM | Feedback (3)

How We Do Things - Preamble and Contents

This content comes solely from my experience, study, and a lot of trial and error (mostly error). I make no claims stating that which works for me will work for you. As with all things, your mileage may vary, and you will need to apply all knowledge through the filter of your context in order to strain out the good parts for you. Also, feel free to call BS on anything I say. I write this as much for me to learn as for you. So a bit ago I asked you, after getting a lot of questions at talks I...

posted @ Sunday, October 04, 2009 10:42 PM | Feedback (8)

Quit Living In The Past - Practices Evolve

In 1846 it wasn't a required practice for medical professionals to wash their hands or equipment when treating a patient. In 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis experimented and discovered that incidences of maternal death from Puerperal fever at Vienna General Hospital were drastically reduced simply by requiring midwife ward staff to wash their hands. Despite showing data that mortality rates under his watch at his hospital rapidly fell off after instituting this new practice, his theories were not widely accepted until well after his death when Louis Pasteur confirmed the germ theory of disease. What does this have to do with software? Well, I...

posted @ Friday, October 02, 2009 10:12 AM | Feedback (3)