When you are writing code it is common to think "I may need XYZ" but I am not really going to need it, Agile advocates using the available time as best as possible and if you do not really need it then why waste time ? Agile also advocates refactoring to improve and tune your code and these two concepts...

I'm a command line app junkie as I love working with it. I guess it's my DOS/Linux roots but I find things go faster when you're not dealing with a GUI and a mouse. Command line tools like NAnt and MSBuild have all sorts of options and syntax. Some of it discoverable, some of it not so much. NAnt for...

In my development process I do use what Rob is describing in his post “ Crazy Talk: Reducing ORM Friction ” with some slight differences. For example I developed Tech Head Brothers portal this way, as Innoveo Solutions web site. I use TDD and Domain Driven Development and I keep the mapping as one of...

Voow, I am almost done. On this Sunday night, at Panera, I have enjoyed writing while listening to the jazz and drinking coups of tea (3, so far). Alright, let's summarize briefly what we have done so far in these series: After giving some intro, In this complete but simple web application, we import...

In No More Iterations I showed our 1 st attempt at a kanban board . Now that we have a little more experience I'd like to show you where we are now and where we stopped on the way. Here is where we started. Columns for backlog, blocked, in progress and done. Notice the large number of items "in-progress...

This is late news, but I really recommend listening to the podcast with Robert C. Martin on .NET Rocks! Decided to listen to this one as a result of the book have read a while ago, Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# . The guy who has spent over 30 years trying to figure out how to do software...

As a team we have found ourselves in a very delicate situation where we had to make a group design decision and it was quiet an interesting experience. What happens if your opinion does not align with the decision? How do you express your opinion without suppressing others opinions, promoting your concepts...

Throughput and velocity are ways of measuring how fast a team can do work. Knowing how fast a team is going allows the team and their stakeholders to know when something is going to be done. What is Velocity Velocity ( http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/velocity.html ) is a commonly used metric...

I am extremely excited to be a part of a team that has deliberately decided to follow the Agile path and TDD way of producing results. Along with that I am learning myself tones. As a team, the decision was made to use strict mocks to understand better what mocking is all about and how dependencies should...

The Useless Introduction You Used To :) This post has taken so long to be started in writing. I’ve been busy with many events in my life lately. Suffering from frequent limited internet access lately, and, all this moving between companies thing has been eating me. And yes, I admit, I' have been as tired...