Archive for December, 2010

  • Just heard a fantastic quote on iterative development from Goro Shimura, talking about his colleague Yutaka Taniyama in the BBC documentary about Fermat’s last theorem: Taniyama was not a very careful person as a mathematician. He made a lot of mistakes, but he made mistakes in a good direction so...

    It is very difficult to make good mistakes

    Just heard a fantastic quote on iterative development from Goro Shimura, talking about his colleague Yutaka Taniyama in the BBC documentary about Fermat’s last theorem: Taniyama was not a very careful person as a mathematician. He made a lot of mistakes, but he made mistakes in a good direction so...

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  • One of the most important lessons that I’ve learned as the result of the research conducted for my upcoming book Specification by Example is that many of the most common problems people have with implementing BDD or agile acceptance testing come from a misalignment of conceptual models. By changing our...

    The principle of symmetric change

    One of the most important lessons that I’ve learned as the result of the research conducted for my upcoming book Specification by Example is that many of the most common problems people have with implementing BDD or agile acceptance testing come from a misalignment of conceptual models. By changing our...

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