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Unit Test This Email Form!

This is so funny, I just have to share it with you… I tried to contact the folks at Agile Journal magazine today. The Contact Us li...

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A Stand-up about Stand-ups

Today our project managers and development managers reviewed the practice of the stand-up meetings introduced by me into our organization...

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AINO: Agile In Name Only

It is well known that many organization who claim to have adopted the Prince2 project management method, are in fact using PINO (Prince2 ...

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To Iterate or Not to Iterate

I love it when the experts don’t agree. It makes me feel smarter. Because, by not agreeing with any of the experts, I actually feel...

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The Pain of Having My Babies Published

Having an article published is like having a baby. The conception of the article is (usually) an enjoyable experience, but the effort nee...

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Software Development Ethics (Not French!)

How do we implement software development ethics? What does it mean to be an ethical software developer? As an individual I like to discri...

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Self-Organized Quality Improvement

Today I counted no less than four new initiatives promoted by our employees: A business consultant found a good tool that could help us t...

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Amazing Discoveries for Presentations

Today I made some amazing discoveries. I have given my usual presentation on the complexity of software projects to a small number of stu...

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What is an Agile Project?

Scott Ambler has started another Agile Adoption survey with Dr. Dobb's, the 2008 version this time. Though I applaud the fact that ex...

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Agile CMMI

As I said before, I have not yet made up my mind about the CMMI vs. Agile debate. I value my life too much to start meddling with this su...

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(R)evolutionary Changes

On codebetter.com Peter van Ooijen has published a blog entry on the evolutionary mechanisms one can find in the selection of tools and t...

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Agile & Iterative Development

I just finished Agile & Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide by Craig Larman, the #8 person on the Top 25 list of Most Popula...

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