I spent the first iteration investigating basic Ruby and the tools available for creating automated tests. I am nowhere near feeling confident in all aspects of the language or on all the intrinsics of the tools but I hopefully I have enough to get the story planned for the next iteration going.
Ruby has a unit [...]
Wojtek Biela is documenting his progress as he helps implementing agile practices in a project that is in pretty bad shape. Will be really interesting to follow.
Last time I did a rough estimation of all user stories supplied so far. In addition the iteration length was set to one week. This time I am going to plan the work for the near future. I may even come up with a rough estimate for the final release.
Ruby
To throw some risk and uncertainty [...]
Twice a month, Kevin Rutherford puts together a digest of what’s being discussed in the agile blogosphere. This site got mentioned in the latest edition. There’s a lot of other interesting stuff there as well. Check it out!
As an excursion in XP I am currently implementing a simple instant messaging application so that I can try out the mechanics of it’s practices. As I am alone on this I will not be able to take full advantage of some of the practices (it will be hard to pair-programming for one). The system [...]
Last time the customer brought the first approach user stories to the rest of the team. By just looking at them, a few things about the design could be inferred, but the team has not created any architecture or design for the application yet. That doesn’t mean that it is not there. It’s simply not [...]
As an exercise in the mechanics of an XP project I am creating an instant messaging application. I will attempt to pay attention to the different roles and act accordingly in the different stages of creating the application. My hope is that this can be compressed into a one or two day workshop on XP [...]
I’ve had the opportunity to work in projects that have members in both the U.S. and Sweden, and that has highlighted some differences in cultural background between us that is quite interesting. One of those differences led to some of the U.S. crew commenting on the fact that the Swedes seemed to be in agreement [...]