Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Tuesday I attended a workshop on behavior driven development (BDD) And Ruby by Gregg Pollack. I learnt a bit more about Ruby and finally get the BDD thing. The p&p developers have been playing around with dynamic languages in their spare time and having quite
The slides and sample code are ...
Tags: BDD, Dynamic languages, Events, Toronto
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
This is a dump of all the suggestions that came up during the "What Makes Distributed Agile Projects Succeed (or Fail)?" workshop by Chris Sims on Tuesday afternoon. I've highlighted the ones what the group agreed were the top three.
Tags: agile, Distributed teams, Events, Toronto
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
The opening keynote speaker is James Surowiecki. It's a great talk! I'm tempted to buy his book. He had some great pointers into how to use the decision making process of crowds and best practices on how not to skew the crowds results. Some of this plays right back into ...
Tags: agile, Events, Toronto
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
This year's agile conference is bigger, and better than before. This leads to the problem of what the hell to go and listen to. Here's my strategy for the week...
Tags: agile, Events, Toronto
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Bumping into lots of people I haven't seen much throughout the year, including Mitch Lacey, David Anderson (of Modus Cooperandi) and Chris Sterling, it's only Monday morning! There's a lot of people from Microsoft here, including several speakers. This is nice to see, as it's a reflection of the ...
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