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Monthly Archive August, 2005

Miles Whitehead

17 Aug 2005

Today I went to the funeral of Miles Whitehead, who died of cancer.

A lovely man, very funny and very bright. I wish I’d spent more time with him.

Personal

High and Mighty software processes

14 Aug 2005

If your development process was a vehicle, what kind would it be?

Delivering straight to production

At Agile2005, I led a workshop on Delivering Value Early We talked about the sort of organizational things that obstruct getting value out of a project incrementally, rather than waiting until the end (I still have the flip-chart sheets here waiting [...]

Software culture

Make extension points objects

In his most recent blog entry, Martin Fowler writes about the problems of requiring people to call super. Absolutely! He uses jUnit setup and teardown as an example of where this hurts, we had exactly that problem in jMock, which makes our version of TestCase difficult to integrate for other people who want to do [...]

Software culture

On retrospectives

Organisations