Category Archives: uncertainty

Beyond Test Driven Development

Posted on June 24, 2012 by

Clarification: this isn’t a post about BDD vs. TDD, it’s a post about Spike and Stabilize. Tagging those now. For love of TDD Dan North and I have been talking about some different ways of writing software that matters. We’ve … Continue reading →

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The Real Cost of Change

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

We have a strange desire for control. I was in a planning meeting with my project manager and several of the devs. “What happened?” the project manager said. “Why did this one story take so long?” “There was some functionality … Continue reading →

Posted in breaking models, cynefin, learning, spike and stabilize, testing, uncertainty | 13 Comments