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Archive for October, 2004

XP West Michigan Talk

Ron Jeffries   10/27/2004

To paraphrase Red Green, if the audience doesn’t find you informative, they should at least find you entertaining. Chet and I addressed the XP West Michigan group recently, and here’s an article from the Grand Rapids Business Journal that resulted.

Big Visible Charts

Ron Jeffries   10/20/2004

It’s time to revisit the topic of Big Visible Charts. Display important project information not in some formal way, not on the web, not in PowerPoint, but in charts on the wall that no one can miss. [Updated: Velocity Charts]

Passion

Ron Jeffries   10/04/2004

Brian Marick, in a blog entry that is quite interesting on its own, points to a very provocative article about group think, German philosophy, and the old Saturday Night Live gang. It got me thinking about Extreme Programming and the “Agile” methods. Have I mentioned passion lately?

DBC: A Frame Object

Ron Jeffries   10/01/2004

I was wondering what would happen if I injected a Frame object into the bowling example, early on. What happened is that I got in a bit over my head. Come along and point and laugh.