Little Things

I have no excuse for this material. It just came out of my pen. And Wyatt Sutherland’s.

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Test First Programming

A drop of rain starts down the glass,
pauses, twists, deflected by every grain of dust.
Growing in certainty, it plunges straight to its destination.

Team in Flight

No one leads the birds.
In flight, one, then another,
all follow, all lead.

Growing Things

Software engineering is farming,
Extreme Programming is gardening.
Where do you get the best tomatoes?

Acceptance Tests

The acceptance test is the door to release.
Running the test is the key.

From Wyatt Sutherland

Extreme Rules a tone,
the artful method applied,
from less results more.

From Wyatt Sutherland

Yes, XP insists,
simplicity is what works,
not more, only less.

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