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• XP StoryStudio v0.99b released

  Having gathered initial feedback from the v0.99 release, v0.99b is now available, with the following minor improvements: Iterations can be deleted. In v0.99, this feature just linked to the Story Delete, and wasn't implemented Date fields now have pop... Posted Jan 18 2005, 09:42 PM by jsgreenwood with | with 18 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Process

• Agile planning tool - XP StoryStudio - available for download

  Whilst I've not had time to do all the documentation I was planning to over Christmas, I have got round to bundling up the installer and updating www.XPStoryStudio.com . So, available for download now (from the aforementioned URL), is v0.99 of XP StoryStudio... Posted Jan 04 2005, 12:49 AM by jsgreenwood with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Process

• When TDD Goes Bad #2

  I've been debating whether to post another entry on this for the last couple of weeks due to another bad smell I've spotted around Agile practices. However, it's my blog, and I think it's worth saying. But first, the bad smell... Zealotry. Many advocates... Posted Dec 29 2004, 10:35 PM by jsgreenwood with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Process

• When TDD Goes Bad #1.2

  So, #1.1 was all about the "business" - people defining requirements, and how these can cause issues. #1.2 is just a short entry about the underlying statement I was trying to make in the original post: Anti-pattern: Where inexperienced/misguided developers... Posted Dec 08 2004, 04:06 PM by jsgreenwood with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Process

• When TDD Goes Bad #1.1

  OK, so people don't seem to get what I was trying to say in my previous TDD post, to the point of claiming (on certain newsgroups) that I "don't get TDD". There were two points I was trying to make. So, I'll try and lay out the first of these now, in... Posted Dec 07 2004, 05:43 PM by jsgreenwood with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Process

• XPStoryStudio site up: www.xpstorystudio.com

  Having registered the site a couple of weeks ago, I've got round to putting together and uploading a couple of web-pages for XPStoryStudio, in preparation for it's release in the very near future. All that's left to do is put some installation documentation... Posted Nov 28 2004, 08:36 PM by jsgreenwood with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Process

• When TDD Goes Bad #1

  Although Test Driven Development (TDD) is one of the greatest steps forwards in software engineering, especially when combined with modern languages and testing frameworks (i.e. xUnit), there's a definite anti-pattern lurking in there - Test Oriented... Posted Nov 26 2004, 12:58 AM by jsgreenwood with | with 20 comment(s) Filed under: Process

• SOA Design with Agile methodologies

  Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Agile - two of the current "hot topics" in IT. The interesting thing is that even though they're fundamentally different - one being a set of architectural principles, the other a set of methodology principles,... Posted Oct 17 2004, 08:56 PM by jsgreenwood with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Architecture, Process

• The simplest thing that can possibly (get me out of) work

  Having spent a few posts on .NET specific tools, I'll get back to more process and architecture oriented topics for a bit now... As a believer in Agile and XP for delivering software (where appropriate), I subscribe to the "simplest thing that can possibly... Posted Sep 06 2004, 11:03 PM by jsgreenwood with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Architecture, Process

• NUnit MSI - an NUnit plugin for Setup & Deploy packages

  One of the things that's irked me for quite some time is how, even in a mature TDD environment, the tests that are written never seem to make it past the integration server. Yet vast amounts of time gets spent tracing and fixing the differences between... Posted Aug 18 2004, 02:26 AM by jsgreenwood with | with 19 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Process