Archive for August, 2008

August 1, 2008

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How should user stories be written?

As my old friend Charles Bair used to say, that’s a two-part question. “How?” and “should user stories be written?” The answer to the second question is “No, not really.”

This notion comes up owing to preparation for a panel…

Recent Articles

Developer Quality! … and Certification?

Uncle Bob Martin comments on “Developer Certification WTF?” in a recent blog entry. Let’s talk a bit about developer quality, and some things that are being done about it.

Book Review: Shop Class as Soulcraft

Author Matthew B. Crawford is a physicist, has a Ph.D. in political philosophy, and is a motorcycle mechanic. What’s not to like? Recommended for practitioners, managers, executives.

What is really essential?

Jens Meydam asked “What do you really care about in Scrum?” I decided to answer, instead, “What do you think is really essential in Scrum-style software development?