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Phone call with Jeff Patton on Story Estimation and Granularity.
The team was having some questions regarding the granularity and estimation of stories, so Bret set up a phone call with Jeff Patton a last week. Here are two takeaways from that call which have already proved invaluable. First, after each iteration, Read More...
New Twist in Agile: Parallel Programming
The other day, Bret and I started working on a card that broke down into numerous, smaller tasks. We began refactoring our procedural code to be Object Oriented along with adding better validations. We paired throughout the day, while working on one of Read More...
CITCON 2007 Review
I just got back from attending CTICON 2007 (pronounced KIT-con) in Dallas. Bret , Kevin and I went up on Friday. Registration was at 6:00 PM. After registration, everyone arranged themselves in a large circle and the hosts- Paul Julius and Jeff Frederick Read More...
Testing is a Team Effort
Testing is a team effort- that's my perception at Dovetail. Lisa Crispin explains this well in an interview by Carl Erickson . I previously worked at a company where the developer to tester ratio was very large approximately 13:1. Our test coverage was Read More...