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• Assert.That(this, Is.Easy);

  I came up with this a month or two ago, but finally decided to share it. While working on Mass Transit , I was joking with Dru Sellers about how nice it was to have really good test coverage when making design changes to some all-new development code... Posted Jan 21 2008, 10:10 AM by Chris Patterson with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: .net, agile

• Resharper 3.1 Solution Wide Analysis

  Since early last year, I have been using Resharper to increase my .NET coding productivity. After seeing the product used at a Code Camp, I was intrigued by how it make test driven development so much easier. I started on version 3.0 and JetBrains dropped... Posted Jan 06 2008, 09:26 AM by Chris Patterson with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: .net, agile

• Iteration One is a Wrap

  Over the past two weeks, my department has been working on our first iteration using agile practices. Yesterday, we wrapped up with a retrospective to go over our progress. We used a fish bowl to keep the conversation centered and focused -- a method... Posted Dec 08 2007, 11:29 AM by Chris Patterson with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: agile

• First Iteration, Week 1

  On Monday, we started our first iteration. We spent the previous two weeks discussing the process, preparing stories, and learning how we can adapt extreme programming (XP) practices into our development process. We kicked off with iteration planning... Posted Nov 29 2007, 07:00 PM by Chris Patterson with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: agile

• User Story Writing

  Since we had our agile fishbowl at work, we've moved ahead with adapting agile practices in our development process. For our projects, we're working on creating user stories to fill our product backlog. I've read several threads on writing... Posted Nov 27 2007, 12:03 AM by Chris Patterson with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: agile

• Agile Fishbowl

  Earlier in the week, I posted about an introduction to agile development that I gave at work. Afterwards, I talked to several of those that attended and figured out that I left a lot of things out of the presentation. This was partly due to some inadequate... Posted Nov 15 2007, 10:54 PM by Chris Patterson with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: agile