Exploring Extreme Programming
Le Ton beau de Marot, by Douglas Hofstadter. Hofstadter explores “What does it mean to translate?” with dozens of versions of the French poem “A une Damoyselle malady” by Marot. Some try to capture the meaning, others the poetry, others Continue reading Review – Le Ton beau de Marot, by Hofstadter
T is for Testable in the INVEST model. A testable story is one for which, given any inputs, we can agree on the expected system behavior and/or outputs.
French translationS is for Small in the INVEST acronym. I now use another S that I think captures the idea even better: Scalable. Scalable means “able to be changed in size or scale,” and that’s handy in a story: We Continue reading Small – Scalable – Stories in the INVEST Model
Commitment is a powerful tool. Continue reading Embracing Commitment
Call your shot, then do it. Continue reading Calling Your Shot
What’s the focus? Continue reading Schwerpunkt = Focal Point
When you get blocked, do you get help, or hide and hope things will get better?. Continue reading The Humble “Yo!”
These patterns (or perhaps proto-patterns) discuss how to use iteration retrospectives as a way of helping a team reflect on and learn from the project while it’s still going on. Continue reading Patterns for Iteration Retrospectives
One way to look at XP is to consider the conversations it involves. Continue reading Extreme Programming as Nested Conversations
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design, Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores. Addison-Wesley, 1987. My favorite part is the notion of explicit conversations for action: making requests, counter-proposals, etc. (Reviewed Nov., ’02)