Chet Hendrickson and I have offered to help the Scrum Alliance build a broad and growing base of information relating to Scrum / Agile, and to the many skills and practices that can help teams be successful. Our offer has…
Kate gives Dan Devlin, the company owner, an overview of Scrum.
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” –Groucho Marx
Outside your extreme programming project, you will probably need documentation: by all means, write it. Inside your project, there is so much verbal communication that you may need very little else.Trust yourselves to know the difference.
Piers Thompson sent me a good question about my recent database articles. I suspect others would like to hear the question and answers.
Here’s the current code, and some commentary, for the “But We Need a Database” article. UPDATED: Comments on Python style.
Last week Chet and I taught a delightful XP Experience class in Delaware. As often happens–where by often I mean always–the participants ran into trouble trying to apply Simple Design ideas when it came time for the system to demonstrate the ability to store and retrieve information. Let’s talk about that.