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That's got to be one of the *best* choice of title since the Mythical Man Month!!
-Kenneth Sizer
Quoting Watts Humphrey, "Developers are caught in a victim's mentality." We never think it's our fault, it's always somebody else's.
-Jared Richardson
Ship It! is part manual of best practices, part software methodologies book and part a distillation of ideas and experiences of good and bad projects that the authors have been involved in. It migh...
-Tech Book Report

Some of My DZone Articles (Jun 18)
Here are a few links to my DZone articles that you'll enjoy.

Embrace Your Inner Stupid talks about ongoing learning and humility.

Code Like Kudzu deals with removing obstacles. Probably not the best choice of metaphors. :)

What is Great Software? delves into more than "It compiled. Ship it!

Agile Isn't Latin is a rant about people who invoke Agile to rationalize their laziness.

Exerciese, Good Choices, and DDT is another call to arms on starting today.

Tips and Suggestions for Your First Iteration is exactly what the title would lead you to think.

Software is like Pornography was an intentionally provocative title. If you want to get software right, you've got to show the customer.

And here's a few in a series that revisited the Agile Manifesto. What's Agile? Individuals and Interactions or Processes and Tools

What's Agile? Working Software or Great Docs?

Customer Collaboration Over Contract Negotiation? Huh??

I never got around to posting on Responding to Change. I guess I owe you one more, then a summary!

Here's my entire list: Jared on DZone

I'll still post a bit to DZone, but I need to focus blogging at Agile Artisans, and at Pillar Technologies.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Category: Agile

TISQA Software Testing Conference - Leap Into Testing for Tomorrow (2012-02-29)
My "Practical Test Automation" talk discusses why, and who, should be writing tests. (Hint, invite developers to this talk!)


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