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Would you do it differently today?

A year and a half ago I wrote a post called My Gameplan for Starting a New Project from Scratch that just detailed my thoughts on starting up a new project. I was asked via email last week if I had any changes to that post. Yes, absolutely: Follow it Through! Don't jump into the work too early without...

Published 05-01-2008 11:04 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Starting a new Project
New Client, New Project - What do you want to know?

I'm starting at a new client in a couple weeks. Last time I did this I created My Gameplan for Starting a New Project . I think it mostly held up with a few exceptions, mostly around the quality of the upfront analysis leading into the initial story list. I think next time I'd like to get just...

Published 03-23-2007 12:57 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Starting a new Project
Noah, I want you to build an Ark

Think about this for a minute, say your Noah, walking down the street, minding your own business, and a big voice booms out "Noah, I want you to build an Ark. When can you ship?" Here's the proper response -- "Right, what's an Ark?" When the big voice says "it shall be...

Published 12-06-2006 7:48 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Starting a new Project
Getting Started: How often should you check in?

Yesterday my team was talking about how often the CruiseControl.Net build ran each day. The question arose, how often should we check in? For example, our team of four developers creates about 20 successful builds in a full day of coding and I think that sounds all right. I can't imagine there being...

Published 11-07-2006 7:28 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Starting a new Project
Week 2: Scheduling and Coordinating the Work

Continuing the " Getting Started " series. My team just finished our second week. Luckily enough we were able to get through release planning quickly and start Iteration #1 on Tuesday. CruiseControl.Net is up and running. I kept a list of the topics that came up this past week that I might...

Published 10-15-2006 11:05 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration, Starting a new Project
More Tips for Getting Started with Agile

Welcome to my stream of conscience series about topics that are popping up on a new team that's largely comprised of folks new to Agile practices. The "Build" Should Remove Project Friction Part of a full fledged Continuous Integration effort is an automated build script that can lay down...

Published 10-09-2006 12:44 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Continuous Integration, Starting a new Project
Week 1 Questions: How do you organize your NUnit test code?

I can see more of these little posts about setting up a project coming up, so I made a new category called " Starting a new Project ." My team discussed how we were going to organize the NUnit TestFixture code. We talked through the normal options and pretty well decided to go down a very generic...

Published 10-07-2006 8:32 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Starting a new Project
Getting off the Ground: Week 1 Questions

Continuing the saga of " getting a project going ," a couple little issues have come up I thought would be "sponge-worthy" "blog-worthy." Do you write Unit Tests for Private Methods? Emphatically, no! The private methods should be getting tested through the public methods...

Published 10-05-2006 1:35 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Test Driven Development, Starting a new Project
Check in all your binary dependencies into Source Control

In the vein of " getting started ," the question came up today about how to access shared binary tools like NUnit or NAnt. I'd say that the best practice is to have all the binary dependencies checked into your source control repository and use those copies of the tools (operating systems...

Published 10-04-2006 3:35 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Continuous Integration, Starting a new Project
My Gameplan for Starting a New Project from Scratch

I'm starting my new job today and kicking off a new project this week. The organization is relatively new and this is the beginning of their first .Net product. Other than some interesting integration needs with an existing backend, the project is greenfield. Everything has to be built from scratch...

Published 10-02-2006 3:10 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Starting a new Project

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Would you do it differently today?

New Client, New Project - What do you want to know?

Noah, I want you to build an Ark

Getting Started: How often should you check in?

Week 2: Scheduling and Coordinating the Work

More Tips for Getting Started with Agile

Week 1 Questions: How do you organize your NUnit test code?

Getting off the Ground: Week 1 Questions

Check in all your binary dependencies into Source Control

My Gameplan for Starting a New Project from Scratch