I recently fell into a black hole. I was creating a demonstration for Cruise Control. When I got to the part about running FitNesse tests via ant, I got all wrapped around the axle with java classpaths. I don't know about you, but classpaths are my nemesis. It took me a long time to get it rig... [More]

Last week I was doing a training session in Melbourne, Australia. I had an especially energetic and interested group of people to work with. In basic agile training, a 1.5 day workshop, I introduced Test Driven Development very briefly, cutting it short because we were going to spend the whole next ... [More]

I just got accepted to the Agile Coach Camp, to be held in Ann Arbor, MI, USA from May 30, 2008 to June 1, 2008. It was pretty easy. I just had to answer 3 questions. Here are my answers. This event is an open space, meaning that the topics are not announced ahead of time and no one has to pr... [More]

This has nothing to do with agile software development other than being an example of how interesting things can happen unintentionally. The image at the top of this page is my Emergent Buddha. I took the original picture in the early winter of 2006 while walking my dog in the back field. It w... [More]

Statement of Good Intentions There are countless web sites and blogs that discuss agile development. While we have a lot of information on agile engineering practices and agile management techniques, I am going to try to take this to a meta level and talk about coaching. I will probably wa... [More]