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Kate Oneal: What is Scrum?

Kate gives Dan Devlin, the company owner, an overview of Scrum.

Scrum Information Base — Agile Skills

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…

The Gift … a Report and a Request

The Story in Brief

At Agile2011, I brought along a “gift”, a nicely formatted and illustrated Kate Oneal story. I gave a copy to everyone who asked for one, and to a few people who didn’t but who I wanted…

Why Did You Do That, Ron?

Piers Thompson sent me a good question about my recent database articles. I suspect others would like to hear the question and answers.

See? We Don’t Need a Database … Yet

Here's the current code, and some commentary, for the "But We Need a Database" article. UPDATED: Comments on Python style.

But We Need a Database … Don’t We?

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.

Kate Oneal and the Mythical Italian Restaurant

Kate met Dan Devlin at the coffee shop on Main Street where he had originally recruited her. They shared the lovely weather and caught up to date on their lives. But Dan had a question.

Ends of Some Things, with Regret … and Beginnings?

It is with some regret that I'm discontinuing my articles about J and about iLua on the iPad. Here's why. Also, I have a question.

On-Web Hashtable … What I’m Up To

Need a little help getting some data in and out of Second Life. World's most rudimentary scripting language, world's most ignorant scripter.

Kate Oneal: Handling Defects

A few minutes before 9, the team was in the coffee room.

“What time’s the meeting?” said Gil. “Is she here?”

“Nine sharp,” said Susan. “I just went by her office. She’s not there.”

“Carl and I have been working…