January 30, 2009
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Hot Needle of Inquiry
Martin Fowler has recently posted a note on Flaccid Scrum. Related posts such as Jim Shore’s The Decline and Fall of Agile have made similar points. Lots of
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January 28, 2009
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Hot Needle of Inquiry
Elizabeth Hendrickson hosted a web chat yesterday, attended by her imaginary brother Chet, Corey Haines, J.B.Rainsberger, and yours truly. After about a year of getting the microphones and webcams to work, we settled down to talk about pair programming.
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January 27, 2009
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Hot Needle of Inquiry
James Brett runs scrummaster.com.au. He is starting a new series called “5 Questions”, where he asks leading lights in the industry five questions about Scrum and their relationship with it. Apparently he was unable to get any leading…
January 26, 2009
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Hot Needle of Inquiry
I’ll be attending the Scrum Gathering in Orlando this March, as will Chet. We’ll be speaking, and generally milling around with the rest of the folks.
January 15, 2009
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Articles, Classics, Hot Needle of Inquiry
Agile software development, with one exception mentioned below, is iterative. An iteration consists of a short time-box, from one month down to one week. The length of the iteration, averaged…
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…
Piers Thompson sent me a good question about my recent database articles. I suspect others would like to hear the question and answers.
Here’s the current code, and some commentary, for the “But We Need a Database” article. UPDATED: Comments on Python style.