Sweet! Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting. --Millard...
Thanks Chris. I'll give it a shot. -- Naresh Jain http://jroller.com/page/njain http://agileIndia.org http://sdtconf.com http://www.thoughtworks.com ...
How do people handle the situation where you have an odd number of people on the team, specifically 3. Within the month, I'm going to be increasing the size of...
... (3 is sort of the hardest odd # to work with, I've found 5 easier:) ... This will surely help. Also, - We pick noticeably easy tasks when soloing....
When we have 3 people onsite together (about 25% of the time--we have a team of 4), we pair almost the same as when we have 4, it's just that the odd-person...
I would run the tests everywhere I could and as often as I could. Why run unit tests on the server? You've moved your tests from the desktop and into your...
... Let him solo - you already have enough pairing going on. ... I remember a post describing a team who swapped pairs that often, as an experiment. Of course...
Hi Charlie, ... developers ... You are right, the best you can offer to your company/manager: not to be worried about a project and a happy Customer! ... hmmm,...
Hi Chris, Hi Charlie ... The presentation is originally aimed at Tech Leaders and Seniors programmers, but I think they are going to be one or two managers....
Hi JP, ... That's OK, just don't try to bend your talk toward those two. Let them see you talking to your primary audience and draw their own conclusions. If...
True, but remember that another goal of the automated test suite should be a relatively quick and easy to run framework (rule of thumb targeting < 10 minutes...
... For TDD, the tests on the modules you changed, and the modules downstream from them, should run in <3 seconds. Otherwise, you will start to hesitate before...
Hi Brad! ... part, a ... Well, the company I work in, is an Spanish Company's subsidiary settled at Argentina (the subsidiary, not the company HQ), and here ...
The developers should never be wasting their time watching tests run on multiple environments. Put up a continuous integration server (like Cruise Control) on...
... Yeah! A couple years ago, I joined a team building collaboration software where the QA team had been trying to manually regression test against not just...
Jef, Thanks for the link. This is definitely something that I'm looking at. I'll keep your link in mind when we start doing it. Thanks. -Corey ... [Non-text...
Yeah, I agree. 3 is definitely the hardest. I do like the idea of having mini-code walk-throughs. I don't know about every checkin, since we checkin after...
Good point. Coupled with promiscuous pairing, I think I'm not too worried about having a "single expert" in an area of the system. Plus, it might help ...
(cross-posted to agileprojectmanagement@yahoogroups.com) Okay, the subject line was meant to be provocative, but I'm really not looking at drawing battle...
We used .Net, and nothing in the .Net platform or it's tooling prevented us from doing a good job. Chris. -- -- Chris Wheeler chriswheeler.blogspot.com coach,...
What was your team using for unit testing? Automated builds? Continuous integration? Any IDE/Refactoring war stories? ... [Non-text portions of this message...
Let's be realistic here. Dot net can't compare to Java in terms of breadth and depth of well-supported, feature-rich tools targeting agile development -- and...
... Yikes, talk about predictable outcomes... Not because I don't know there is zero chance of me preventing the long, unproductive thread this question is...
... Currently, I work day to day in Java. I've worked day to day in .NET before, and I speak at some of the .NET Code Camps on agile technologies. Eclipse is...
... Because I think it's at the crux of your problem. Teamwork and communications is a learned skill. With a small group, you can set things up so most...
... Odd question. All the languages that are "part of" the .NET framework were heavily javafied to fit in. As I recall, .NET was launched because Microsoft was...
if you want a nice agile expereince creating web apps, Ruby on Rails is the way to go. Keith ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
