Dave Laribee

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• Die, Chicken. Die!

  The "in breakfast there are chickens and there are pigs" analogy is a popular one in Agile circles. It refers to the idea that in a given project there are people who are fully committed (pigs, developers) and people those who are merely invested... Posted Jan 23 2008, 12:01 AM by Dave Laribee with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, Featured, Leadership, management, Scrum, teams, XP

• Approaching BDD

  I'm preparing a chunk of code for open source release in January. Among many other things it has a persistence layer wrapper with a "provider" for NHibernate, yet another validation framework, and a few goodies for building smart clients... Posted Dec 17 2007, 05:38 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 20 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, BDD, Featured, open source, TDD, xeva release series

• Deployment: The Cyclopean Pain in the @$$

  Why is deployment so hard? Where is my Agile deployment?! Chad Myers wrote about using XML configuration and stored procedures to monkey patch fixes in the production environment on the ALT.NET mailing list: Talk about dysfunctional, but we’ve learned... Posted Nov 16 2007, 09:12 AM by Dave Laribee with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, continuous-integration, deployment, Featured, pain