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Index of ‘XP Magazine’ Articles

This area of the site contains articles written by Ron Jeffries, or contributing authors to XProgramming.com

Kate Oneal: Choosing the Stories

Ron Jeffries   01/04/2010

After a failed iteration, the team regroups with a few new stories.

Book Review: Shop Class as Soulcraft

Ron Jeffries   01/04/2010

Author Matthew B. Crawford is a physicist, has a Ph.D. in political philosophy, and is a motorcycle mechanic. What’s not to like? Recommended for practitioners, managers, executives.

Kate Oneal: Slices

Ron Jeffries   01/04/2010

The team has fallen far short in the most recent iteration. What should they do?

Beyond Agile — The Agile Barrier

Ron Jeffries   12/21/2009

Agile projects very often seem to stall out after gaining perhaps twenty-five percent of the possible benefit. Why is this? What can be done?

Beyond Agile — Inspect and Adapt? How?

Ron Jeffries   12/16/2009

Incremental and iterative development processes provide frequent opportunities for teams to “Inspect and Adapt”. What should we inspect? How should we adapt? Is this part of the process?

Analogues for Test-Driven Development

Ron Jeffries   09/08/2009

There has been some discussion of late regarding the use of Test-Driven Development ideas in non-software areas. This is a really good idea and I would like to talk about it here.

Kate Oneal: Funding Susan’s Projects

Ron Jeffries   06/19/2009

Susan Prior drops in on Kate to talk about some new products she would like developed.

Contact Information

Ron Jeffries   04/25/2009

I get about 300 spam e-mails every day. A Bayesian mail filter, POPFile, puts most of these into a folder for suspected spam. Once in a while an email that should reach me goes into that folder. I check the…