by Emily Bache | Oct 19, 2007 | Experience Report, Uncategorized
I’ve listened to a lot of Bob Payne’s agile toolkit podcasts and I think Bob is pretty poor at interviewing people, although he does interview some very interesting people.Bob clearly doesn’t plan his interviews or think in advance about what...
by Emily Bache | Oct 4, 2007 | Coding Skills, Uncategorized
I mentioned in a previous post that we were planning to attempt KataMinesweeper at a GRUG meeting. That meeting actually happened on 19th September so I am a bit late reporting on it, but never mind. There is a summary of what we did here.I had never really seen RSpec...
by Emily Bache | Oct 4, 2007 | Coding Skills, Uncategorized
I was really impressed by this screencast that Thomas Nilsson did of him solving KataBowling. Quite apart from the skill with which he solves the programming problem, I like the format. I have previously tried to describe how I have solved other Kata, by writing long...
by Emily Bache | Sep 23, 2007 | Experience Report, Uncategorized
There’s been a thread on the Agile Sweden mailing list this week about the kind of manipulation that consultant-coaches use in the course of their work with a software development team. Several people seem to favour this definition of what manipulation...
by Emily Bache | Sep 19, 2007 | Story, Uncategorized
Let me tell you a story about a young developer called “Sue”. Sue has just learnt all about eXtreme Programming. She has worked on an XP team with lots of pair programming, unit testing, refactoring, simple design etc and is totally converted. The world should be...
