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Tag Archives: agile
There is no such thing as a good field programmer
There is probably some rule of blogging which says that once you start making war analogies you’ve jumped the shark. With that risk acknowledged, I’d like to present a quote: The influence one man can have on thousands is a … Continue reading
The Coding Wasteland
Lately it has become popular to justify any messy code written in haste as intentional technical debt: “we chose to sacrifice quality for speed.” I’m not sure this is a constructive trend. In my own work I’ve begun making a … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, debt, design, discipline, technical debt, technical waste, waste
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Agile is whatever you want it to be
EDIT: Courtesy of Charles Feduke, this post is now available in video form as well: CodeBlaster5000: Dude, you are an agile coach? We do agile! AgileZenMaster23: “Coach”?. I am an Agile ascetic. I point at the moon. CodeBlaster5000: That’s cool. … Continue reading
Elegant Code » Book Review – Extreme Programming Explained
While it seems that Scrum and Lean are getting all the buzz in agile software development these days, why on earth would I want to pick up a book on Extreme Programming that has been written back in 1999? Well, … Continue reading
Agile Living
Over at The Lazy Faire, the blog my wife and I co-write, I’ve started blogging about applying Agile software practices to everyday life.
