Posts Tagged ‘agile’

Cowboys in an Agile World

28th April 2009 by jt 2 Comments

My buddy Chet just did a blog post here about Pro’s vs Hacks in software development.  Since I’ve often considered myself a bit of a hack, I took some offense at his usage of ‘hack’.  But the phase ‘hack’ or ‘hacker’ has many different connotations.  I prefer a more traditional definition.  Turning to the Jargon [...]

Intro to Agile

26th April 2009 by jt 1 Comment

Robert Dempsey is starting a blog series on Agile & Scrum.  You can find the first post here.
If you have a few minutes, its worth taking the time to checkout the video.  He did a real nice job on the video, and there’s a lot of great content.

The Art of Doing Code Reviews

18th April 2009 by jt 3 Comments

A colleague of mine is  implementing code reviews as a standard practice at his development shop.  One of his senior developers stated that he is not going to submit his code for code reviews.
What!?!
I heard the words in English, but I could not find meaning in them.  The statement is so contradictory to my own [...]