“The New Agile” Slides
I had a great fun presenting at the Agile Practitioners meet-up today on “The New Agile”. Good feedback, and feels like a keynote. Here are the “New Agile” slides. The New Agile
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Legacy Code to Testable Code #4: More Accessors! On Everyday Unit Testing
The next post in the “Legacy Code to Testable Code”, somewhat wanting more, is now on the Everyday Unit Testing site. Check it out!
Legacy Code to Testable Code #3: Adding Setter Accessors On Everyday Unit Testing
The new post, in the “Legacy Code to Tetable Code” on unit testing is somewhat accessible, now on the Everyday Unit Testing site. Check it out!
Legacy Code To Testable Code #2: Extract Method
This post, somewhat painfully, now appears on the Everyday Unit Testing site. It’s about making legacy code easier for unit testing by refactoring the code by method extraction. Check it out!
Upcoming Events
It’s that time again. It’s going to be busy so try to keep up. On Oct 21st, I’m giving a presentation called “The New Agile” at the Agile Practitioners Meetup. The talk is about what’s hot and making the waves in the agile world. On Nov 13th, I’ll do the “TDD Patterns” talk at Agile
Legacy Code To Testable Code #1: Renaming
This post, namely, now appears on Everyday Unit Testing. It’s about refactoring legacy code for unit testing by renaming methods and variables. Check it out!
From Legacy Code To Testable Code–Introduction
This post was taken by raiders to the Everyday Unit Testing site. Follow Indy there! It is the starting post about refactoring legacy code in order for unit testing it. http://memecrunch.com/meme/19PWL/exploring-legacy-code
Testability != Good Design
This post, comparable or not, now appears in the Everyday Unit Testing site. It’s on the idea that TDD equals good design, while it’s really not, and it probably still needs refactoring to get it to be good. Check it out! Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/microassist/7268711202/
I Did Scrum and All I Got Was This Lousy Shirt
So this came up a few days ago: “Why Scrum Should Basically Just Die In A Fire”. My first thought was: “Of course scrum is failing him, he’s not actually doing scrum.” Second thought was: “He doesn’t understand agile at all, does he?” Third thought was: “Gil, you’re an idiot.”. Because I have been saying
The Measure Of Success
What makes a successful project? Waterfall project management tells us it’s about meeting scope, time and cost goals. Do these success metrics also hold true to agile projects? Let’s see. In agile projects we learn new information all the time. It’s likely that the scope will change over time, because we find out things we