My BDD and Yatzy adventure comes to an end
It’s about time I’ll wrap up my BDD blog series before I forget what went through my head and before you all loose interest.This time it won’t be a very code intense post, although there will be some....
View ArticleThe Art of Influence (part 1)
In my profession I constantly deal with change. Sometimes it’s introducing new ways to think. Other times it’s changing the way you approach a problem. And most of the times it’s me trying to make...
View ArticleDiscipline and freedom
A colleague, Erik Lundh, usually talks about ‘discipline in the small, [gives] freedom in the big’. To me this makes a lot of sense. Like, when I’m not performing at my best. I’m usually thinking along...
View ArticleProgramming and refactoring – A metaphor
I like metaphors. They have a very powerful way of telling a story. I think it is the very graphic nature of most metaphors I like. Still, you can overuse, over analyze or put meanings into them which...
View ArticleWorking Agreements
Sometimes teams need something solid, something real to discuss. I have seen and participated in a fair amount of, what felt like, endless conversations about values. I’ve seen teams struggle with...
View ArticleWhat about ScrumAnd
The hype around Scrum has lead people to think that Scrum equals Agile Software Development. And vice versa. I’m rather happy about that. Well I’m not happy about the fact that Scrum is getting all the...
View ArticleMy Pair Programming Journey (pt. 2)
Me and my colleagues had all jumped in the XP-water. Iterations, planning game, TDD and more. Things was running along quite nicely and I realized I had been pair-infected. Just like you can get...
View ArticleBug Squash – Another Software Team Anti Pattern
It’s time to do something about all these bugs. The dev-team keeps shipping bugs every other month – Manny thought to himself. He had been managing a team for almost six months now and his gut-feeling...
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