Call me confused… when I “View Site” from word press, I see the original movabletype blog. In wordpress I see blog posts from may, june, july, october, october 2009. I also see comments from WP posts. But now I cannot see those posts at all. In movable type I see no posts between Feb 2009 …

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In a very soul-searching way, Kent Beck reveals some frustrations here: Cracking My response: IMHO, you are doing the right thing, and your questioning of Share this:

Check this out… A Better Team and take the quiz! My current team and I need to work to improve ourselves :-\ But that was just my assessment… I’ll try to get the whole team to collaborate on the “team” answers and see how that compares. Share this:

I have long wanted to collect little gems of “technical Debt” along the way. So, when I stumbled upon wetpaint.com (because I was looking for a replacement to stikipad.com, I finally started up a little site on Technical Debt: http://technicaldebt.wetpaint.com/ Come join me Share this:

Kind of an astounding bash going on here.. Interestingly, Tim Hunter is “…[trying] to launch his own quality driven development methodology called Share this:

An agile modeling poster: How does agile prevent stovepipe systems and implementations. My inquisitor seems to think that agile development processes actually increase the incidence of stovepipe systems and thinking. (I’m paraphrasing here) Agile is recursive. Just as the power of components, objects, interfaces is applicable in the small or in the large… The parallel …

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Building an application is a lot like gardening, or better, farming. Are you doing a quick app (maybe a flower pot), or a mission-critical app — where you need sustainable farming techniques? Share this:

Scott Ambler shared this link agile schmagile… The first slug of slides (which i have not gotten past yet) pointing out realities of some development efforts being lousy has nothing to do with agile and everything to do with people doing a lousy job at software development. News flash: anyone can screw up doing a …

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we had our second iteration kickoff today. the first iteration was a bit premature — but i knew that. there were still issues with the team’s preparation: getting their systems setup understanding the best project structure reconfiguring SVN figuring out some of the flex UI issues determining how to do CFUnit properly etc. The team …

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i was consulting at a client a couple months back. the president of the company was concerned that his staff was not as productive as it used to be. about a year or two prior, the owner and the president decided they wanted more software to be produced. they decided to add offices overseas and …

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