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Alt.Net kicked off this evening with the setting of the agenda. We have so many topics, there are going to be a LOT of great discussions. I feel privileged to be a part of a conference that is potentially shaping the .Net community. . . and I enjoyed...
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I'll be attending the AltNetConf . Convenient for me that it's in Austin, TX. It's an open space conference, and I consider it the founding conference of a conversation that is "Alt.Net". I'll be proposing the topic: What are...
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I have learned an important lesson from my combined experiences at all the places I've worked. That is: raw requirements cause waste. A term I've used (and have heard others use) is that requirements are either "baked" or "not baked"...
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http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=322781 The above is a link to an Arcast episode where I had a conversation with Ron Jacobs about what an Agile Architect is. Give it a listen and tell me what you thought. My basic point (beyond introducing...
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There it is. A pile of ripped up note cards denoting all the engineering tasks completed by my pair. This was an unusual day because it started at 7:30am with some white board modeling and brain-crunching a very, very tough problem. We wrote out some...
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Please read this post by Brad Appleton (and some links off the post) about building trust in a software team. The notion is very profound, and we don't talk about much in professional circles. I, for one, can easily be drawn into only thinking about...
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I've been reviewing Jim Shore and chromatic 's upcoming Agile book, and I especially like the "No Bugs" section here: http://jimshore.textdriven.com/Agile-Book/no_bugs.html Large, dusty bug databases abound. Some teams have a process...
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I have printed out and posted the graphic from Plip's blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/plip/archive/2006/11/16/who-broke-the-build.aspx
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In an effective organization, discipline is key. You can't run a loose ship and expect to be effective. One of the disciplines that his hard to master is speculation. Speculation When working on a story, the developer team might have questions or...
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In my first two installments of this series, I talked about: Eliminating Waste Dodging as much work as possible. These first two guidelines are very important. The first drives efficiency, and the second drives effectiveness. Even doing these first two...
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This is a follow on to part 1 of this series. I'm talking about how to produce software quickly. To be clear, I'm not talking about producing brittle software quickly. Software is too expensive to be built cheaply. This mantra is a good tagline...
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This is harder than it sounds. I'm thinking about this topic because I'm the manager of a software product team. I'm responsible for the product's health and speedy delivery. Because of that, I need to steer the team in the direction with the shortest...
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James Shore is taking lessons learned and teaming up to write a book called "The Art of Agile Development" . He's posting sections on his website for review. You can read a section and post what you think to his Yahoo group . I've followed James' blog...
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If you remember the article in October that was on MSDN on Test-Driven Development, you remember the hub-bub that it caused because of the inaccuracies, and how it soon was pulled from the web. Microsoft has published new Guidelines for Test-Driven Development...
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If you are going to Tech Ed 2006: Come to Party with Palermo Stop by my Bird's of a Feather session on " Agile Development with .Net" The session will be on Tuesday at 7:45PM This BoF will not seek to convince people on the merits of Agile: there are...
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