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Over-testable systems, and mocks as bad test smells

ISerializable, July 3, 2008

This is an interesting problem I've been running into at work. Sometimes we would try to write a test against the system or a component and we would literally have too many choices of how to write it ...

ALT.NET Canada coming soon!

Visual ActiveKent Sharkey .NET SE 3.11 : ASP.NET, July 1, 2008

Are you test-driven? Agile? Are you up on all the latest three letter acronyms (IoC, BDD, DRY)? Or are you just a curious sort who wants to know more about developing using these technologies? If so, ...

Software Books Ordered

Steven Smith, June 23, 2008

I just ordered some more books, on recommendations from a few of my peers.  I'll post my thoughts on them once they've arrived and I've had a chance to read them. The Art of Agile Development...

In Search Of Best Methodology

AspNetResources.com articles, news and updates, June 20, 2008

There was a time when Agile nazis zealots used to make me feel bad. I’d feel guilty about not following The Agile by the book. We did not do stickies with user stories, had no burn–down ch...

Requirements Tracability in Mingle

Cirrus Minor, June 2, 2008

While I am on the subject of Project management, One nice feature of Mingle (I am not sure if it is new in v.2 or it was there in v1) is requirements traceability. Requirements traceability is a re...

Enterprise Library 4 is now released

Guy Barrettes WebLog, May 19, 2008

Microsoft as released Enterprise Library 4.0. You can download it here: http://www.codeplex.com/entlib You can read about it here:http://blogs.msdn.com/agile/archive/2008/05/16/enterprise-library-4-0...

Agile Rejection Letter

ISerializable, May 12, 2008

"Dear Roy, Thank you for your submission to the Developer Jam stage, entitled "Advanced Unit Testing Patterns, Tips and Tricks with examples in .NET".  We received a number of gr...

Understanding Agile Software Development...

DotNetJohn.Com, May 8, 2008

In this article Joydip provides a brief overview of Agile Software Development and its methods....

Heard Mike Cohn speak at AgileAustin user group

Jeffrey Palermo, May 8, 2008

Today I had the pleasure of hearing Mike Cohn speak at an AgileAustin meeting. Below are some of my raw notes. I have not edited them. Just a brain dump of some of the presentation. - agile is all a...

Individual Empowerment and agile...

Eric Gunnersons C# Compendium, April 28, 2008

(Interestingly, I find myself writing more about agile and team stuff now that I'm not on a development team....)   This is in response to a question about how you balance individual em...

Kanban Process Template for TFS

Corporate Coder, April 22, 2008

I want to announce that I have posted an alpha version of the Kanban Process Template for TFS on codeplex.  The template as currently has a set of Areas and Iterations to help get started wi...

Where you can find me this spring

Jeffrey Palermo, April 11, 2008

MVP Summit 2008:  Tomorrow I pray to God that American Airlines doesn't cancel my direct flight from Austin to Seattle for the 2008 MVP Summit where I will host another Party with Palermo.&nb...

Agile Coaching: The daily stand-up meeting

Jeffrey Palermo, March 28, 2008

I'm starting a new blog series based on my experiences doing agile coaching at clients.  Along with agile projects in .Net, my company also offers agile coaching and training.  Right now...

Schemaless C#-XML data binding with VTD-XML

The Code Project Latest Articles, March 24, 2008

Agile, efficient XML data binding without schema...

More on the Web Service Factory 2008

Corporate Coder, March 17, 2008

Looking at the web service factory more I see some possible value.  I had problems installing the version with source,  but it turns out that it was my directory structure.  I init...

Web Service Factory for VS 2008

Corporate Coder, March 10, 2008

Just released earlier in February, is the Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition for 2008.  This new software factory utilizes the Guidance Automation toolkit in the source code.  An...

What is a good example of unit test over specification?

ISerializable, March 1, 2008

I'm working on chapter 8 of my upcoming book and I need to come up with a good example of over specification in unit tests, that leads to an unmaintainable test in the long run (fragile test). I have ...

Schemaless C#-XML data binding with VTD-XML

The Code Project Latest Articles, February 28, 2008

Agile, efficient XML data binding without schema...

Schemaless C#-XML data binding with VTD-XML

The Code Project Latest Articles, February 28, 2008

Agile, efficient XML data binding without schema...

Agile For Customers

Steven Smith, February 28, 2008

Tom Hollander wrote about why your customers will love agile (even if they think they hate it) last week, and made several interesting observations about how agile methodology has taken hold in many c...

Why your customers will love agile (even if they think they hate it)

Tom Hollanders blog, February 16, 2008

Project management methodology has never been a particularly sexy topic. While it's always been necessary to employ some kind of process to guide any non-trivial software development project, in my ex...

Heading to ALT.NET in Seattle

Brad Abrams, February 13, 2008

I just signed up for ALT.NET Seattle April 18-20!  I am really looking forward to the unconference style of the event.  I am hoping to learn about the latest trends, and get some feedback on...

CIO Magazine on Agile Development

Steven Smith, February 8, 2008

The latest issue of CIO Magazine has a featured article on Getting Clueful: 7 Things CIOs Should Know About Agile Development.  It includes quotes from a bunch of developers, including some names...

ChannelVisor's Agile Development Center Open House

Chris Love's Official Blog - Professional ASP.NET, February 4, 2008

I just found out about ChannelVisor's Open House next week. They will be showing off there new Agile Development Center. If you are not aware of ChannelVisor they are a .NET shop that provides a rich ...

How to write stories _before_ the project kicks off

Jeffrey Palermo, January 24, 2008

Recently, I was coaching a client who was embarking on a new project.  The project team was not formed, but key stakeholders were planning what the projected needed to be.  In Agile (specifi...

The Case For Typemock

ISerializable, January 20, 2008

I just wrote an email to someone regarding Typemock. We were discussing why they don't think Typemock holds the values that other mocking frameworks hold when I suddenly realized what I've been wantin...

Enterprise Library 4.0 Plan Published!

Tom Hollanders blog, January 9, 2008

Happy New Year to you all! The Enterprise Library team has started the new year with a bang by publishing their v4.0 product backlog onto CodePlex. As announced previously, the big ticket item is a ne...

More on moving from to Agile from mainstream Project Management

Corporate Coder, January 2, 2008

If you need more info on how to move your Project Management organization from mainstream or waterfall project management methods, here is an article from Doug Dicarlo that might be interesting. ...

Wanna join me at TypeMock?

ISerializable, January 1, 2008

The good news for TypeMock is that we (yes, "we" instead of "they") have secured a 1.5M$ Investment. More details here. The better news is that we are actively looking for great .N...

January MSDN Toolbox Column Online

.Avery Blog, December 28, 2007

The January MSDN Magazine is now available online and includes the first of three Toolbox columns that I wrote (filling in for Scott Mitchell). I wanted to focus on open source tools and agile books ...

Project Managers and Testing

Corporate Coder, December 28, 2007

Johana Rothman has a great article in stickyminds titled What Project Managers Need To Know About Testing.  Her main point is to make testing an integral part of your project plan.  I would ...

January MSDN Toolbox Column Online

.Avery Blog, December 28, 2007

The January MSDN Magazine is now available online and includes the first of three Toolbox columns that I wrote (filling in for Scott Mitchell). I wanted to focus on open source tools and agile books a...

Being Agile Means Understanding When to Change

Steven Smith, December 12, 2007

While I was completing my drive into work this morning, I was thinking about a book I read recently, Cryptonomicon (highly recommended - very smart and interesting), in which there's an exchange betwe...

My Team is Hiring and We Need YOU!

Marquee de Sells: Chriss insight outlet, November 16, 2007

As Don Box, Chris Anderson and Doug Purdy have mentioned, my team is hiring. We use agile methods and "everyone shovels," i.e. everyone designs, codes, writes unit tests, gives presen...

Ask Mary Poppendieck questions on Lean!

Corporate Coder, November 13, 2007

If you have followed the Agile software development, you most likely have come across Mary and Tom Poppendieck's work like Lean Software Development This might interest you. Schumla is h...

More on Using Kanban to manage your maintainence backlog Part III

Corporate Coder, November 1, 2007

[tags: Agile, Project Management, Lean, Change Management]It's been a while since I've posted, but we've finally decided how we plan to implement this new Kanban System for our change tickets.&nb...

Agile Development Center on MSDN

simon.says, October 21, 2007

When I was attending the ALT.NET conference a couple of weekends ago, it became apparent that few people had even heard of the Agile Development Center that we had on MSDN.  To help it becom...

The Scrum Clan

Wortzels blog, October 17, 2007

A new Scrum clan was open and Shani invited me into it. It was a nice idea of Oren and Moti (the founder of this clan) to start a new group of Scrum lovers. But I wonder what the clan purposes are? Is...

Agile Dev Center on MSDN

ISerializable, October 10, 2007

Did you know that MSDN has an Agile Related dev center? well, not really dev center, but its part of the architecture center (for some reason). I only learned that on the MSDN related session at ALT.N...

Free Rails Book

.Avery Blog, October 4, 2007

Sitepoint is giving away electronic copies of Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications. I am currently reading through the new edition of Agile Web Development with Rails, but I went ahead and do...

The Timeless Way is Agile

+dotNetTemplar+, September 30, 2007

I finally got around to finishing The Timeless Way of Building, by Christopher Alexander (most well known in software for being the source of the patterns movement). The last part of the book is call...

Understanding Agile Software Development

ASPAlliance.com - The #1 ASP.NET Community, September 26, 2007

In this article Joydip provides a brief overview of Agile Software Development and its methods....

More on Using Kanban to manage your maintainence backlog

Corporate Coder, September 18, 2007

 [tags: Agile, Project Management, Lean, Change Management]As I mentioned in a previous post, I've been experimenting with using the I saw David Anderson mention Kanban System to test how th...

Welcome Andrew Delin to patterns & practices

Tom Hollanders blog, September 14, 2007

I was getting a little worried about losing all of the Aussies in p&p, first with Jason leaving and then me. However I'm pleased to report that a new Aussie has joined the team: Andrew Delin is th...

SQLAuthority News - Scrum: Agile Software Development for Project Management

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, September 12, 2007

I have been working as Director of Technology in leading software industry in Las Vegas. I am responsible for Team Building and Product Management. I have collaborated with Joey Vincent of JoeyJavaScr...

Scrum is not enough. Try ScrumP

ISerializable, September 11, 2007

I'm a firm believer in the idea that a good development methodology always has two parts intertwined. The first part is the Process. That's basically everything that has to do with the customer, requi...

Using Kanban to manage your maintainence backlog

Corporate Coder, September 10, 2007

[tags: Agile, Project Management, Lean, Change Management] If you have not been looking at how David Anderson is utilizing a Kanban system at Corbis, read his articles on it here.  The ...

AgileAustin kick-off meeting a big success.

Jeffrey Palermo, September 5, 2007

Last night a new user group, AgileAustin kicked off its meeting schedule with a presentation by Jim Van Riper from Troux Technologies.   Background on AgileAustin:  AgileAustin was form...

AgileAustin kick-off meeting a big success.

Jeffrey Palermo, September 5, 2007

Last night a new user group, AgileAustin kicked off its meeting schedule with a presentation by Jim Van Riper from Troux Technologies.   Background on AgileAustin:  AgileAustin was form...

Video: Agile Israel - Introduction to Agile, Scrum Planning

ISerializable, September 4, 2007

The last Agile Israel meeting was A BLAST! I personally had lots of fun, and so did Danko. I was also very excited to host it once again after such a long time.  It took lots of time to also uplo...

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