Category: XP Magazine

Uncle Bob Martin comments on "Developer Certification WTF?" in a recent blog entry. Let's talk a bit about developer quality, and some things that are being done about it.

Choose your tools wisely, that they allow for the development of your skill.

Jim Shore has written a short item with the above title. Let's think about it a bit.

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

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.

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?

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?

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.

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