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The important of transparency in development
Saturday, April 16, 2011 12:11 PM

David talks about the value of transparency in development . Read More...

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Better Agile Retrospectives
Monday, April 05, 2010 1:07 PM

David has posted about the Agile Retrospectives book and his experiences .  Incremental change is fundamental to so many agile practices (probably the most important in my opinion) – and retrospectives are the best way to foster discussion and prompt change.  The problem is how to get everyone involved in the process.   Jonathan Cogley is the CEO... Read More...

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Agile Process Software or Index Cards/Stickies?
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:29 AM

There is some discussion going on here about whether software tools work well for managing Agile processes or whether going manually with index cards and sticky notes works best.  Is your team practicing Agile?  If so, what works best for you?   Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software services and product development... Read More...

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Pair Programming and Pandemics
Thursday, June 25, 2009 2:29 PM

Pouya has posted about the dangers of illnesses when Pair Programming on our team blog.   Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software consulting and product development company based in Washington DC.  Secret Server is our flagship web password management product. Read More...

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Stinky PartialMocks?
Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:56 PM

Jimmy has posted about PartialMocks on the team blog .  This has been a recurring discussion on our team and it is worthwhile thinking careful about whether to use PartialMocks and if so, what is an appropriate usage … Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software consulting and product development company based in Washington DC. ... Read More...

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SRP with the DC ALT.NET User Group in Alexandria, VA
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:39 PM

Last Wednesday (3/25/2009), I presented at the DC ALT.NET User Group in Alexandria.  Thank you to the groups organizer, Matt Podwysocki for inviting me. Writing Code with the Thycotic Team The presentation was TDD with C# and Mocks - which is a hands-on coding session with the audience working on a real application (our online store codebase) - the new code... Read More...

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When you apply for a job, read the job posting!
Monday, April 07, 2008 10:48 PM

I am constantly amazed by the number of job candidates who apply for a position without reading the job posting. We are currently hiring for three positions: Agile .NET Developer Agile .NET Developer Internship Graphics Designer All three involve *doing* something in order to be considered for the position - for the developer positions it requires completing... Read More...

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Learning from your Burn Down chart
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:36 AM

The chart to the left represents the Burn Down chart for the Secret Server 4.1 release which shipped on March 14th 2008.  We have always shipped Secret Server on the published date (or in the early hours of morning the next day!) but this release pushed things a little too close for our liking.  What was the problem?  Did we take on too much? ... Read More...

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Secret Server 4.0 has shipped!
Saturday, December 22, 2007 10:40 AM

We were hoping to ship one day early but a few delays in getting some updated artwork and some of the upgrade documentation caused us to ship yesterday on the scheduled day.  Secret Server has never missed a launch date since first being released in November 2005 - this is something we attribute to Test Driven Development, Pair Programming and an agile planning... Read More...

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Removing dead code
Wednesday, December 05, 2007 1:09 AM

What does your code terrain look like?  Are there bodies of dead logic lying here and there?  Maybe they helped briefly while you worked towards a better solution or perhaps they just fell victim to changing business rules. At a recent Code Camp, there was a question about code generation and I answered that we (as developers) are required to love every... Read More...

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