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On good design and defining success

This is for the most part a reaction to conversations on design: Testability in .Net Design and Testability Good Design is not Subjective Believe it or not, I largely agree with all of these posts. The conversation originally started around TypeMock (and IoC before that ). Missing from all these discussions...

Posted to Jimmy Bogard (Weblog) by bogardj on 08-19-2008
Free e-Book from Karl Seguin

I may be late on the band wagon on this one, but I just had the privilege of reading Karl Seguin's free e-book, "Foundations of Programming" . This is what Alt.NET is all about. Even if you disagree with Alt.NET or what it stands for, please just take a glance at it. Karl is very good at...

Posted to Jason Meridth (Weblog) by Jason Meridth on 07-11-2008
More on Quality

I started typing a comment to John Teague's post about Creating a Culture of Quality , but it got a little long so I decided to make it a post. If you would be so kind, please read John's post first (linked in the last sentence) and then proceed with this post. Here are some of my additional...

Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 06-07-2008
Mike Cohn in town

Mike Cohn , author of User Stories Applied and Agile Estimation and Planning , is speaking tomorrow night as a part of Agile Austin's Distinguished Speaker Series. The topic is "Succeeding with Agile: A Guide to Transitioning" , with the description: Transitioning to an agile development...

Posted to Jimmy Bogard (Weblog) by bogardj on 05-07-2008
Reacting to change

When dealing with the possibility of change in requirements in the middle of development, I've generally seen three reactions: Explicitly reject the possibility Ignore it completely, hope it goes away Accept and embrace it Of these three, only two are valid reactions. There's a time for explicit...

Posted to Jimmy Bogard (Weblog) by bogardj on 04-07-2008
Agile Arguments, Part 2 - Background, and Arguments from Fear

In this second part to my ongoing Agile Arguments series , I want to go into a little background and cover a little bit about (what I think) Agile is about and it's purpose and values. I'd like to also talk a little bit about why I think this stuff is important enough to spend time arguing about...

Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 04-06-2008
Agile Arguments, Part 1 - The Kickoff

Kickoff First, let me say that this post has nothing to do with recent events in my employment situation other than it was a the final small straw on the beleaguered camel's back that is my patience with half-baked, poorly implemented and poorly-understood agile project management and practice. Over...

Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 04-03-2008
Ancient wisdom is inescapable, especially with project management

Introduction Today was my last day with my current former employer, as you may have heard from my (also now-former) coworker. We quit on principle after having several irreconcilable differences of opinions with our management over how to manage and execute a software project. As you might imagine, after...

Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 04-02-2008
PTOM: Single Responsibility Principle

The Single Responsibility Principle This post is about the first letter in Uncle Bob's SOLID acronym, Single Responsibility Principle , and a continuation of The Los Techies Pablo's Topic of the Month - March: SOLID Principles . Sean has already posted on this, but I'd like to "contribute"...

Posted to Jason Meridth (Weblog) by Jason Meridth on 03-29-2008
Is your process dead?

Two of the conventional criteria for exhibiting life are: Adaptation Response to stimuli Together these combine into the ability to respond to outside forces. So how do we know if your process is dead? If your team or organization: Does not elicit feedback on a regular basis Cannot respond to feedback...

Posted to Jimmy Bogard (Weblog) by bogardj on 03-20-2008

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