I became a professional programmer when I was 20, not-quite 38 years ago. Bob Martin’s back-of-the-envelope estimate of the doubling rate for programmers is that it’s been about 5 years for at least 3 decades. That means I have more time in this trade than more than 99% of the other programmers in the world […]
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Five underplayed premises of TDD includes the correlation premise. The correlation premise says "internal quality and productivity are directly correlated". Confusions and misunderstandings around this premise abound furiously, so it’s worth taking some time and working it out in detail. When we say internal quality (IQ) and productivity are directly correlated, we mean that they
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We talked about five underplayed tdd premises before, here’s a video & transcript. over the next couple of weeks, I’d like to take a little time and go over each of them in more depth. Today, let’s start with the money premise. The money premise says: "we’re in this for the money." TDD is fundamentally
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We talked at great length about how agile coding practice can be seen as combining several attempts at attacking the thinking knee, but what about agile non-coding practices. As I push towards the topic, which is it what got me started on this set of muses, I want to offer a bit of caution before
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We’ve spent some time on the thinking-knee, but i’m not quite done with it yet. Let’s narrow our focus for a minute, to matters strictly around code & coding. Programmers have been thinking directly & indirectly about ways to evade or at least mitigate the effect of the non-linear thinking knee more or less forever.
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So we talked about non-linearity in this previous post, wrapping it into the context of explaining why we prefer continuous integration (CI). But non-linearity isn’t just a good rationale for CI, it’s actually a driving factor for several of the practices of agility. It’s worth it to take a little more time to look hard.
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I remarked en passant the other day that I never see places where the biggest problem was sprints. Someone asked me what I do often see as the biggest problem when I walk in to a new shop? This gave me a lot of thinks. There are certainly things one sees over and over again.
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When we talk about software methods, very early on we come to a place where we simply have to develop a comfortable grasp of non-linear effects. So many conversations founder here, where the relationship between two values becomes something other than a more or less straight line on a piece of graph paper. We spend
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So, there’s a lot going around just now about iterations vs pure pull. I feel like I want to weigh in on this one. I should say at the outset, as a coach the presence or absence of iteration/sprint is not a major outrage for me one way or the other. I routinely encounter sprint-based
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We’ve got this long (and still probably partial) list of reasons why people don’t try new things. In recent weeks, i’ve gone pretty far afield around coaching. I picked out four or five threads separately and ran with each, separately. If it seemed a little incoherent to you, well, you know, join the club. Analyzing
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