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This past Saturday I had an early morning coffee with a friend. He’s an entrepreneurial type – a big thinker who moves at a fast pace and is always thinking ahead. One question he asked of me, “Are you playing checkers or chess?”. The question was asked around business and career but I could not...
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After my recent post about our software team moving to Kanban I got an email from Derick Bailey asking how he could help with our transition. Derick graciously offered to meet with our team and help with any questions we may have and provide guidance as someone who has traveled this path before. We met...
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Several months ago our software team decided to dive into the Scrum process. What we were doing before that simply wasn't working. The project had unstable delivery dates and we knew something needed to change. Fast forward about four months and we're going to take a shot at using Kanban and...
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I came across a nice article on CI today, thought I would share. You can find the article here Till next time,
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Recently I was asked about backing in unit tests into an existing project. In particular I was asked A) was possible and B) is it worth it. In short my answers to both these are Yes and Yes. However, backing in unit tests is not without its challenges. I thought today I would go express my experiences...
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In my last post I think I struck a cord with some people in my post 'Unit tests taking too much time'. My intent was NOT to sound like an elitist Agilist or any else of that nature. My intent was simply to put a post out there about the misperception (in my opinion) about how writing unit tests...
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Up until a few months ago I had never even attempted to use mocks ( NMock , RhinoMock , etc). Every time I would read about Mocking I thought to myself, this is kinda cool, but seems to be a waste of energy. At the time I saw Mocks as only a way to create ‘placeholders’ for business/data classes. I did...
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Just to pass this along. I was needing to raise events in NMock and I came across this post on how to Raise Events in NMock2 . This is a good post with clear examples. Enjoy
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I am looking for feedback from the group. I am pretty new to using mocks for my unit tests and I am not sure what the standard approach in the community for usage of mocks in regards to how/where they are stored in your test application. After refactoring some of my tests to use mocks I quickly noticed...
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I currently work for a company that is a very process and documentation light. They believe very strongly that big process and heavy documents will only slow down a project (actually one of the reasons I joined the company). However, as the new guy assigned to lead a very high profile project this can...
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In order to run a successful project the project members have to feel they OWN the project. They must feel that they have: A say in the direction of the project A say in the decisions that are made That they can achieve the desired outcome The best way to achieve all of the above it pretty simple, empower...
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What does the phrase ‘Deciding as Late as Possible’ mean in reference to software development? Does it mean that you don’t have to make decisions? Does it mean that you can procrastinate until some point in the future to make a decision? No, it means that you defer making critical or...