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Category Archives: breaking models
The Joy of Arrogance
I’m awesome, and arrogant. I’m awesome, and arrogant, and I know it, and this makes me joyful. I wanted to share that joy with you, and explain why I think arrogance is so important, and humility overrated. For a start, … Continue reading
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The Real Cost of Change
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
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You’re doing it wrong
The first time I did it wrong, it was because I didn’t know any better. The second time I did it wrong, it was because I forgot about the first time. The third time I did it wrong, it was … Continue reading
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Conversational patterns in BDD
BDD isn’t about the tools. It’s about the conversations you have, exploring examples (or scenarios) of an application’s behaviour, to see if everyone has the right understanding. Of course, we don’t know what we don’t know, so feedback is still … Continue reading
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The Evil Hat
You’ve got a problem. You want to measure, and improve, something about your project or people. You’ve got a good idea about how to do this. Perhaps the metric you want to use is already widely measured. Perhaps it’s been … Continue reading
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Doing the simplest thing and YAGNI
On an aside, some people have asked me why I’ve chosen to set up my services site as a hard-coded website with server-side includes, instead of using another WordPress blog or something similar. I did it because: It was the … Continue reading
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Cargo Cults and Agile Values
What’s a Cargo Cult? Once upon a time, during World War II, there was an island on which planes landed. The islanders loved the planes landing, because they brought goods that the islanders couldn’t normally get. The soldiers shared the … Continue reading
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I am not a Pr0n Star: avoiding unavoidable associations
I just read Matt Amionetti’s thoughtfully worded response to the reaction he’s got from his presentation, “CouchDB: Perform like a Pr0n star”. Indeed, reading the response, it seems almost inconceivable that anyone could possibly be offended by his presentation. Matt … Continue reading
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What does “Not Agile” look like?
Last week, the XtC London group met up with the SPA2009 attendees. Joseph Perline ran a panel session with Tim Mackinnon, Rachel Davies and others in which they discussed the weakening of the Agile brand. One of the most interesting … Continue reading
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