Programming

Early in my career as a programmer, I remember coming across the phrase, “You can’t test quality …

Participants in my Certified ScrumMaster courses are often surprised when I recommend that …

With so many agile processes available, it can be hard to tell what is right for you. When the …

Doing performance testing creates some amount of overhead on the team (the tax). This overhead or …

Ten years from now I hope we’ve stopped calling it agile. I hope we’ve stopped calling it anything …

Scrum teams learn to work by doing a little of everything all the time.

The first priority of a team with technical debt is to stop the bleeding, stop things from getting worse.

Even before the ascendancy of agile methodologies like Scrum, we knew we should automate our tests. …

After years of studying the problem, I've come up with a foolproof way to determine if Scrum is …

In seeking to improve how we develop software, we continually inspect and adapt. While thinking …

There are many ways to transition to an agile process. Choosing the approach that is most likely to …

During the mid– and late–1980s I was was working in C and eventually C++. During that period I …

Many teams try to divide and conquer when it comes to sprint planning, often with disjointed and …

An academic paper that describes the importance of using more than just the vaguely defined …

An experience report presented at XP2006 covering why it is not as simple as telling product owners …

Change may be a constant, but it doesn't have to be constant. By following some simple guidelines, …

Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse is a very good book. Right in the preface …

Scrum was designed to be lightweight, so if your team is complaining that it's too heavy, you need …

A key consideration in adopting an iterative process is selecting how long your iterations will be. …

This is an excellent book that, in my opinion, serves two purposes. First, it is a compendium of …

Until reading this book, I had been nervous about the introduction of generics into .Net. First, I …

Too much work goes into use cases to not employ them to their full potential. By assigning points …

The subtitle for this book is “A Practical Guide.” That subtitle is perfect. This is one of the …

This is a wonderful book. I first saw Fit during its infancy and I didn’t “get it.” This book will …

Users are often kept at arm's length. We ask them for their input on the design, but then we, as …

This is an amazing book that does not disappoint in any way. It is full of wonderful well–written …

My initial uses of JUnit are probably not unique. I found it a wonderful tool and a great way to …

I was honored to be the guest editor of a special issue of Better Software magazine that was …

Most books about programming teach us about a specific technology or two. Right now I’m staring at …

The transition from a plan-driven to an agile process affects not only the development team …

This is a great book for learning or improving with UML. Topics are introduced at a level …

Books written during the first phase of agile software development have been about very specific …

Over the years we've come up with many useful database development techniques. This article …

Ken Schwaber and I co-wrote this article to help counter the misperception that agile projects do …

This article describes how a project was successfully downsized from 100 to 12 developers. To make …

I knew this book would be different from the use of “Teamwork” in its subtitle. Many of the …

This book is fantastic. I’m only a tester to the extent that everyone doing XP is a tester but I …

This article describes some very useful metrics that are probably worth collecting on any project.