I try to remind everyone as often as possible that the most complex part of solving problems is people. So many little things impact people every day. Today I came across this tip from Johanna Rothman for distributed teams: Call the teams by their feature names, not by their geographic location. It’s too easy to [...]
Naming Distributed Teams
Jun 9
I’ve always received great feedback when describing the cone of uncertainty to groups on a whiteboard using events in time rather than simply an abstract timeline. Today I put a graphic together that I can easily share or refer to. Thought I’d post it for others as well. Feel free to use it and let [...]
I was a member of the Agile Engineering panel at the Path to Agility in Columbus, OH yesterday. It was a great event (if not overcrowded) with some amazing names. The panel started quickly down the dreaded TDD path. You know the one where we proselytize about how everyone’s doing it, you should too, and [...]
What would a Monday following an Agile conference be without the announcement of a new group focused on quality practices! I’m happy to announce that Cincy Clean Coders is really going to happen. Details can be found at http://cincycleancoders.com, but suffice it to say the inaugural meeting will be held April 7th at 6pm [...]
[Updated: @davidfowl suggested using the FrameworkName rather than parsing myself. Thanks!] I’m working on the Caliburn.Micro Nuget package and one of the things that we need is to add a default Bootstrapper, ShellView, and ShellViewModel to your project. One awesome thing Rob Eisenberg has done is provide WPF, Silverlight and WP7 versions of Caliburn.Micro. Unfortunately, [...]
Cincinnati Day of Agile, to be held March 26th, 2011 at Savannah Conference Center, is open for registration. This is a cheap ticket with huge returns that sold out quick last year. We’ve made more tickets available this year, but don’t expect them to last too long. Register here: http://cincydayofagile.org/ Topics you’ll find [...]
I recently blogged and Tweeted this idea for Cincinnati Clean Coders. It came out of some work I’m doing with a team that was struggling with TDD adoption and steps we are taking to resolve the underlying causes. This team had been trying really hard for about 2 sprints, and to a lesser degree in [...]
I’m headed to the MVP Summit at the end of this month and I want to take feedback to the team. The summit is a great opportunity for me to give feedback, but I’m certainly not the only one with ‘ideas’ (just check Twitter). So I want to give everyone a voice and I’ll do [...]
Cincinnati Clean Coders
Feb 16
I tweeted today that a team I’m working with has started a weekly patterns and techniques learning cycle to expand the team’s toolbox for creating clean, testable, and flexible code. This came out of some reflection that I’ll dive into in another post. This tweet sparked some interest and I’m happy to follow the rabbit [...]
I and a few coworkers are running a twice monthly web series starting February 10th. This series will touch on the opportunities we’ve been involved in to ease real world situations. If you are working with Team Foundation Server 2010 and are interested in making your life a little easier I invite you to come [...]