These days, reading the Goos book, by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce, it reminded me of a project I worked on a while ago. It was a one year old system, poorly tested, integrating to a handful of other systems, and the code-base… well I prefer not to remember. Despite this scenario, I joined the [...]

The agile software development practice I like the most, and at the same time, the one I find the most difficult is pair programming. Each individual has his/her own way of working, and characteristics such as motivation, engagement, habits, open-mindedness, and coding/design style varies a lot from individuals. Sometimes, to get a balance between these [...]

One of the most difficult tasks for consultants is to influence business people to embrace and support test-driven development. Seems like they do “understand” the values, “agree” with that, but when it comes to put into practice the figure is generally a bit different. When I say to put into practice, I mean stick with [...]