Gojko Adzic

During the Agile 2008 conference, Mike Stockdale organised a mini-session where he and Rick Mugridge presented some new features and ideas that they are working on at the moment. The session led to a very interesting discussion on whether we could produce a variant of domain adapter/domain fixtures that allows FIT to connect directly to most domain services and objects without the need for any fixtures. Continue Reading »

Marcus Evans talked today at Agile 2008 about his experiences with migrating to agile practices at the BBC, during a session titled the FrAgile organisation. He discussed organisational changes, challenges and ideas that really worked for them during that period. Continue Reading »

Henrik Kniberg, author of Scrum and Xp from the Trenches, talked today at Agile 2008 about the most common ways for teams to fail despite applying agile practices and tools. His presentation was organised as a talk about common problems and symptoms of those problems, with audience voting on what hurts them the most. From my perspective, it was a very effective way to see problems of other teams and definitely raised the awareness of some of these issues. Continue Reading »

James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds, gave a keynote speech today at the first day of Agile 2008 conference in Toronto. His talk was about how to harness the collective intelligence better and what conditions have to be met for teams to be more intelligent than any single individual in the team. Continue Reading »

I presented a 15 minute introduction to Subversion during the Alt.NET Community on Alternative .NET tools evening last week. The video should appear online soon at the Skills Matter site. Here is the talk in a more readable form meanwhile.

Subversion is my favourite version control system. I’ve been using it for about two years now (I first wrote about it first in april ‘07) and so far I am very happy with it. It was built as a replacement for CVS, which was the standard version control system in the Unix/Linux world and more or less de facto standard for opensource projects at the time when Subversion was started (sometime in 2000). Subversion took the best ideas from CVS, added some very interesting concepts and solved most of the problems that people had with CVS (but not all of them). It is now the typical choice for any new Java projects and replaced CVS as the standard version control system in most of the opensource projects. Over the last few years, it is becoming more and more popular for Windows .NET projects as well. Continue Reading »