Michael F. gave us a demo of what he calls “Naked CRC” or “Ironman CRC”. This is a technique that he uses to explain systems visually, using motion and spatial relationships. It’s a bit hard to explain completely textually, so if you ever get the chance have him demonstrate it for you. Basically, the technique […]
Mike Feathers
More observations
* Brian observed that it was interesting pairing because it seemed that at any given moment he wasn’t as confident in the code and his understanding of the code as it has historically been on his own (but as long as the sum total of confidence was ok, he was ok with that). He attributed […]
Metrics in XP
This post is in more of a notes style than my previous ones. I was originally planning on making this more prose-like, but I’m not going to after all. I kind of like the way it reads now. Maybe it’ll lead to more questions, but I’m going to call it a blogging experiment. 🙂 Cem […]
Day 3 wrap-up
You may have noticed that I’m blogging less and less on each day. Some of this is because the planning and procedural stuff is becoming less emphasized as we work more on getting a story done. While I could say “we wrote code” it doesn’t seem the same to me in terms of what I […]
Group discussion
Did some stories, did some code mining, did a feature walkthrough (so they know where they’re going). Talked about what scenario testing is and what the role of testing is on projects. They’ve already found a big stack of bugs in the existing code. Synopsis of their discussion of scenario testing: Got through the demo […]
Plan for week
For the week, we’re going to split into two groups. One will work on extending RubLog, a Ruby blogging tool. The other group is going to work on updating/creating a computerized test for veterinary medicine. As part of the exam process for veterinarians, they’re given a test where they are given a case, have a […]
Agile Fusion Day 1
And we’re off (slowly). Today is arrival/setup day, so nothing big to report. Attendees so far: James Bach Lisa Crispin John Elrick Mike Feathers Mike Hewner BC Holmes David Jones Cem Kaner Brian Marick Bret Pettichord Chris Sepulveda Jeremy Stell-Smith Bill Wake and myself We’re been getting the laptops setup (installing Eclipse, Ruby, Ruby-FIT, the […]