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Agile Developer Curriculum

I know, long time since the last post. Life is rich. Thanks for asking. I was at Agile Open San Diego last week. Thi sis annual event where smart people get together to learn from each other. I highly recommend it

Roger Brown February 22, 2018April 2, 2019 Coaching, Coding, Training No Comments Read more

Agile in a COBOL World

Can Agile work for mainframe projects? A recent coaching client is a small company that wanted to transition their entire development department to Agile. It was an easy sell to the applications people, harder to the maintenance people (until I

Roger December 3, 2009April 27, 2012 Coding, Scrum, Teams No Comments Read more

Leave Some Space Between the Notes

Trust your subconscious mind to be a smart partner. If you get stuck, don’t keep slamming against the dam. Do something else for a while. Then consult someone else. Do some lateral thinking. Get outside the box. Maybe do no thinking at all. And even when things are going well, give your brain a break. Leave some space between the notes.

Roger July 6, 2009August 12, 2009 Coding, Scrum, Sustainable Pace 2 Comments Read more

Testing the Hard Stuff

My favorite class to teach is TDD. I like to challenge developers to stretch their brains into new territory. They do it every day in other ways. Learning TDD is a level higher than solving algorithm and design challenges. It

Roger November 17, 2008May 25, 2009 Coding, Training No Comments Read more

Agile As-Built Design Document

Once upon a time I worked in a place that required design documents before any code was written. I won’t go into all of the pros and cons of that particular practice here. You have probably heard them all by

Roger June 24, 2008October 26, 2010 Coding No Comments Read more

No Time to Unit Test

While reading Scott Bain’s great book Emergent Design, I was reminded of a story. It took place a couple of years ago inside a very tall building in a very large city. I was giving an early version of my Test

Roger June 23, 2008May 25, 2009 Coding, Training No Comments Read more
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