xpday Archive

  • John Rae and James Shiell presented tips and tricks for hiring the right people for an agile team yesterday during their session titled “Building a successful agile team” at XPDay 08 yesterday. Their startup grew rapidly last year, and was almost constantly hiring. The traditional hiring techniques and practices did...

    Building a successful agile team

    John Rae and James Shiell presented tips and tricks for hiring the right people for an agile team yesterday during their session titled “Building a successful agile team” at XPDay 08 yesterday. Their startup grew rapidly last year, and was almost constantly hiring. The traditional hiring techniques and practices did...

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  • At the XpDay 08 conference today, I participated in a workshop on pair programming organised by Matt Wynne and Laura Plonka. The participants were spit into several groups, discussing various challenges for the adoption and implementation of pair programming. I was in a group which was given a task to...

    How do you decide when to pair program?

    At the XpDay 08 conference today, I participated in a workshop on pair programming organised by Matt Wynne and Laura Plonka. The participants were spit into several groups, discussing various challenges for the adoption and implementation of pair programming. I was in a group which was given a task to...

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  • Chris Ambler, European test manager for Microsoft games, spoke about how games companies are testing software during his keynote Testing games is not a game – it’s serious stuff at XPDay 2008 today in London. Ambler said that the game industry is from a technology perspective doing much more bleeding...

    Quality comes from cooperation

    Chris Ambler, European test manager for Microsoft games, spoke about how games companies are testing software during his keynote Testing games is not a game – it’s serious stuff at XPDay 2008 today in London. Ambler said that the game industry is from a technology perspective doing much more bleeding...

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  • Jeff Patton from Thoughtworks held a very interesting session at XpDay last month in London, focusing on a common misconception that causes “agile” projects to fall into the same trap that the waterfall ones typically do. Incremental is not iterative Using a very interesting combination of pop music and rock...

    The waterfall trap for “agile” projects

    Jeff Patton from Thoughtworks held a very interesting session at XpDay last month in London, focusing on a common misconception that causes “agile” projects to fall into the same trap that the waterfall ones typically do. Incremental is not iterative Using a very interesting combination of pop music and rock...

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  • Acceptance tests should reflect customer’s perception of when the job is done, so they must be defined by a customer or a business analyst. That still leaves us with a question who should translate that definition into FIT/FitNesse tables. There was an interesting discussion on this topic at the XPDay...

    Who should write acceptance tests?

    Acceptance tests should reflect customer’s perception of when the job is done, so they must be defined by a customer or a business analyst. That still leaves us with a question who should translate that definition into FIT/FitNesse tables. There was an interesting discussion on this topic at the XPDay...

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