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Written by Brad Appleton
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Wednesday, 12 August 2009 16:12 |
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Written by Brad Appleton
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Thursday, 06 August 2009 16:21 |
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 I'll be presenting at Agile2009 in Chicago on the Tools for Agility stage on Tuesday 25 August, 4:45pm-5:30pm.
Here is my session description from http://agile2009.org/node/2762
WANTED: Seeking Single Agile Knowledge Development Tool-set Aren’t code, backlog-items, tests, designs & documents all just different forms of system knowledge at different levels of detail? Why can’t the same tools help refactor, browse, search, and provide build/test automation for non-code forms of knowledge without requiring a separate tool/repository for each format? Thi[...] |
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Written by Brad Appleton
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Saturday, 01 August 2009 04:06 |
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This question came-up in a discussion earlier this week: Do we know of published studies on this subject? A quick Google-search turned up the following for me ...
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Written by Brad Appleton
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Saturday, 25 July 2009 16:55 |
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I found a really good resource-list from George Dinwiddie on Introspection and Retrospectives that includes the following list of resources (mostly patterns & techniques) about conducting retrospectives. It contains many (but not all) of the links below:
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Written by Brad Appleton
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Thursday, 16 July 2009 17:35 |
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In my previous post, Refactoring for Agility, I posted an outline and some thoughts for Part I of an Overview on Refactoring. Now I'm ready to post on Part II which is about refactoring @ scale. By "at scale" I mean in the larger context of other agile practices, as well as for large projects.
PART II - REFACTORING @ SCALE
1. Scaling-Up
- To scale refactoring for larger projects, some additional techniques & issues must be added to the mix.
- Note that this is “in addition to” (not “instead of”)
| Refactoring In-the-Small | Refactoring @ Scale | | Small, Fast & Frequent Refactorings | Larger, Periodic & Planned Restructurings | | Emergent Design | Incremental Design & Evolutionary Architecture | | Deferred Ref[...] |
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Written by Brad Appleton
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:32 |
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Some of you might have guessed from my recent posts on Emergent Design, Technical Debt, JEDI Programming, and 5S Qualities of Well Designed, Well-Factored Code, that I've been looking into trying to teach the fundamentals of refactoring and how it scales to larger projects. I've gathered some references and quotes and some ideas for slides that I wanted to bounce around on my blog.
Here is an outline and some thoughts for part I of some slides ...
PART I - REFACTORING FOR AGILITY
1. Overview of Refactoring
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Written by Brad Appleton
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Monday, 13 July 2009 17:02 |
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Three more brand new books I just received that are worth mentioning ...
For those who may not know ...
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Written by Brad Appleton
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Friday, 10 July 2009 16:56 |
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Written by Brad Appleton
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Tuesday, 07 July 2009 16:35 |
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In the July issue of the Agile Journal I reviewed Walker Royce, Kurt Bittner and Mike Perrow's book The Economics of Iterative Software Development: Steering Toward Better Business Results. Here is an excerpt ...
The Economics of Iterative Software Development: Steering Toward Better Business Results is an important text for anyone trying to persuade management to "go iterative" as well as to anyone needing to measure & track the kinds of business results that management needs to see for a software development project.
I'll be perfectly honest: I was expecting this book to be an extremely dry and boring read, albeit full of lots of useful information densely packed in mathematical models and formulas, perhaps reminiscent of past college days reading a huge tome on socio-political economic theories. It wasn't as bad as I'd feared. Yes - it [...] |
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Written by Brad Appleton
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Sunday, 05 July 2009 17:33 |
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I left a comment on the "What is Missing?" entry at the Agile-in-a-Flash blog. The author's asked the questioin "What is missing?" from the stack of Agile flashcards they are developing. I responded ...
I think the "JEDI" approach is missing (any by that, I don't mean the mantra of "use the source Luke" ;-)
I think there is something missing regarding TDD and Design. Uncle Bob's three rules of TDD (and other writings) often mislead people to think that there is ZERO design up-front, as is if NOT doing Big-Design-Up-Front (BDUF) implies that therefore there is zero up-front design (NoDUF).
This is false (and Uncle Bob has even vehemently said so in
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