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Bliki: GivenWhenThen 21 Aug 2013 | 05:24 pm
Given-When-Then is a style of representing tests - or as its advocates would say - specifying a system's behavior using SpecificationByExample. It's an approach developed by Dan North and Chris Matts ...
Interview on Working at ThoughtWorks 20 Aug 2013 | 06:53 pm
A short interview with InformIT about what it’s like to work at ThoughtWorks (although I’m hardly a representative example.) We talk about how I got there, why I stay, and what people can do to join a...
photostream 51 27 Jul 2013 | 07:59 pm
Acadia N.P., ME
Privacy Protects Bothersome People 25 Jul 2013 | 07:06 pm
One of the consequences of the Edward Snowden story is a heightened discussion about the importance of privacy - in particular when or if privacy should be traded off in order to combat terrorism. To ...
Speaking in South Africa 24 Jul 2013 | 12:42 am
I now have the information for my talk in Cape Town. It will be on Thursday August 15. If you want to come along register here.
Bliki: UserDefinedField 23 Jul 2013 | 07:36 pm
A common feature in software systems is to allow users to define their own fields in data structures. Consider an address book - there's a host of things that you might want to add. With new social ne...
photostream 50 20 Jul 2013 | 03:46 am
Shore Acres, Cape Arago, OR
Evolving a Mobile Implementation Strategy 17 Jul 2013 | 07:58 pm
Earlier this year Giles Alexander and I spoke at our ThoughtWorks live events on strategies for mobile applications. Here is the video from the London talk. We talk about the “Lean-forward”, “Lean-bac...
Bliki: StoryPoint 16 Jul 2013 | 07:10 pm
Story points are a common name for sizing stories in agile projects. Combined with XpVelocity they provide a technique to aid planning by providing a forecast of when stories can be completed. When e...
Bliki: StoryCounting 16 Jul 2013 | 07:09 pm
Story counting is a technique for planning and estimation. Similarly to StoryPoints it works with XpVelocity to help you figure out how many stories you can deliver in a fixed period of time. It diffe...
