I was speaking with a potential client about their approach to knowledge management. They think they need a senior person to organize a top-down appoach, and build a...

Adam Bullied wrote a really good article about not losing motivation in the face of challenges. His closing quote spun us off on a philosophical tangent about being...

I had heard of Test Driven Development (TDD), an agile development technique, and I knew people I knew were using it. I started using it recently after I finally learned...

IntroductionThe traditional bug triage process is miserably inefficient. Over my decade in this industry, I’ve spent months of my life sitting in windowless offices...

Is your product successful because you were lucky, or because you were methodical and intentional? Do you want to build a plan where you are dependent on good fortune,...

WCF is the second biggest framework after ASP.NET that sooner or later forces you to use a static "context" property to do anything beyond the trivial stuff. ASP.NET has...

The release of Moq (and the subsequent updating of Rhino Mocks in response) has made mock frameworks much more approachable to me, but I still find situations where...

One of the problems I see in projects is that there is not a sufficient definition of done. For agile teams, it’s not clear what done means for a timebox. For...

I've experienced this before, and all you can do is cry. This is why agile is so important. Instead of one person making all of the decisions, you have a team that...

We just shipped xUnit.net 1.0.1 today. Aside from a handful of bug fixes, the two major things addressed for this release are: Support for ASP.NET MVC Preview 3...

I have a Stickyminds column up, Does Exploratory Testing Have A Place On Agile Teams? The column arose out of an email conversation I had with Jon Bach. Please leave...

I received two questions this week about how well does agile allow you to do traceability matrix. Very well is the short answer. Here’s why. If you commit to...

Some may say that Agile and Documentation don't go together. That you can't take an agile approach to creating documentation. Tonny Madsen's blog entry "Missing Books...

Since our last great adventure in April 2007 it seems that Skypecasts have gone down the toilet somewhat. In fact, during our tests for tonight’s conference we...

Clarke asked me to explain my earlier throw-away remark that YAGNI forms part of the EXPLOIT step in moving the bottleneck away from development, so here goes…...

As we are working on the next set of features for Typemock Racer, the threading related test framework, I think it will be nice to know what features and thread...

Every so often someone asks what the title ScrumMaster means. Some assume it implies mastery of a subject, such as a Zen Master, or a master carpenter. My friend Bryan...

I've gotten the chance to visit and consult various companies and I see this all the time: Over specification in tests, especially when doing mocks and stubs. One main...

Diana and I have one space left in the December 11-13 Secrets of Agile Teamwork in Portland, Oregon. SAT is three days of experiential learning and practical tools to...

Diana and I are offering Secrets of Agile Teamwork this June 5-7, 2007 in Portland, Oregon. This is a public workshop, open to 12 people. We'll be focusing on the...