Steve Freeman

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a little while and now I feel triggered by Keith Braithwaite’s especially grumpy contribution.

I’ve had a few discussions around the “Has Agile Lost Its Mojo” session, including with Keith. One person called me an elitist, which is an interesting term of disapproval around an investment bank. Clarke […]

I know this is the right way to teach, it’s just taking me quite a while to get there.Stockhausen later said: “In many respects Messiaen did the opposite of what I wanted. He never tried to convince me. That made him a good teacher. He did not give instruction in composition, but showed me how […]

Just bumped into this paper via Kathy van Stone on the TDD listhttp://www.cebase.org/www/frames.html?/www/researchActivities/defectReduction/top10/index.htmlThe summary (in garish yellow and red) is: Finding and fixing a software problem after delivery is often 100 times more expensive than finding and fixing it during the requirements and design phase. About 40-50% of the effort on current software projects is spent on […]