November 21, 2001
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” –Groucho Marx
Outside your extreme programming project, you will probably need documentation: by all means, write it. Inside your project, there is so much verbal communication that you may need very little else.Trust yourselves to know the difference.
November 21, 2001
Here’s a bit of a rant I wrote some time back, talking about how to write the manuals for an XP project by using writers as part of the team. It’s a serious proposal, written with tongue a bit in cheek.
November 8, 2001
Categories:
Book Review
Extreme Programming is a discipline of software development based on values of simplicity, communication, feedback, and courage. It works by bringing the whole team together in the presence of simple practices, with enough feedback to enable the team to see where they are and to tune the practices to their unique situation.
Kate gives Dan Devlin, the company owner, an overview of Scrum.
Chet Hendrickson and I have offered to help the Scrum Alliance build a broad and growing base of information relating to Scrum / Agile, and to the many skills and practices that can help teams be successful. Our offer has…
At Agile2011, I brought along a “gift”, a nicely formatted and illustrated Kate Oneal story. I gave a copy to everyone who asked for one, and to a few people who didn’t but who I wanted…
Piers Thompson sent me a good question about my recent database articles. I suspect others would like to hear the question and answers.
