Our colleague Adi Bolboacă was invited to talk about programming games tonight at xALEc. xALEc is an online meeting for the Agile Lean Europe network where interesting ideas are discussed and exchanged between the community members from everywhere. Programming games are games that programmers can play to improve a specific skill: collaboration, communication, writing expressive […]
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Often during my life as a programmer, coach and trainer I have to explain how a test should look like. So I decided to write about this subject. Remember that code, especially test code, is read more often than written. Often you will be the person to read it after you wrote it. So do
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(Guest blog post by Markus Gärtner, originally appeared on his blog. Republished with permission.) Four months have nearly past since I started my new job at it-agile GmbH. Lots of things have happened since then. I got to know many teams, I learned lots about design, architecture, test-driven development, and also about testing. This blog entry is about
Why is it so hard to teach “what we started to call ATDD”? Read More »
I am at the Agile Cambridge conference, where I will do the “Taking baby steps” session. I was eagerly expecting Michael Feather‘s keynote, that proved to be full of insights. Michael Feathers has spent his last 10 years studying large existing code bases and trying to understand what influences their structure. He is well known
Where Does Code Fit in People Over Processes? Read More »
For a couple of years I had an idea: let us organize an event focused for programmers and testers. For them, technical guys and girls that do a lot of work and are the base of any IT business. So, last year during our team retreat (you can see a picture here with us, during
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Last week was the first Latvian IT community driven conference. I waited long for being a speaker at this event because I did not know a lot about the Latvian community. So I had one day to find out during this event what the Latvian community prepared for us. Ever since a couple of months
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Pair-programming and ping-pong game have something in common. Adrian Bolboaca, our trainer and coach, tells us about that on his blog. But being so interesting, he lets us to publish it here, as well. Purposes Learn pair-programming easier Force the “know-it-all” programmer to see other ways of writing code Force the “know-it-all” programmer to collaborate
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Last year I was fortunate enough to be the Product Owner of a team that built and deployed code every hour for three consecutive days. This post describes how we did it and what the conclusions were. We will repeat the experiment at the I T.A.K.E. Unconference, at the end of this month.
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Would you like to have better unit testing? We can help with: Attending the “Unit Testing Core Practices” workshop, also available in-company Attending the “Test Driven Development (TDD) ” workshop, also available in-company Attending the “Acceptance Test Driven Development” workshop with Markus Gärtner If the situation is more complex, we would be happy to create a customized package for
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In my early years as a programmer I was always afraid to touch existing code. Usually that code was written by someone else. It was so hard for me to understand it. I found out after a while that this kind of code is called “spaghetti code”. Now I am having fun making convoluted code
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