Nowadays Agile is almost on its peak of popularity, and Scrum is on everybody’s tongue. I see Scrum being followed almost everywhere. I even came through videos where kids were using Scrum to manage their tasks. I see small/big projects using Scrum to deliver quick and superior products. I see questions and curiosity about Scrum. [...]
I recently did an experiment by designing using CRC cards. I did with my team and found it quiet useful and comfortable. The design outcome of this process was also the team’s design rather than one person’s design. Also, as everyone participated in the designing the design was better than a single person’s design. Please [...]
Recently I experimented with pair programming by using two keyboards, one for driver and another for navigator. I was amazed by its out comings. It made programming fun and the code quality, design as well as the productivity increased. I have written the complete blog on my official blog site. Looking at the comments I [...]
You will often find people in Agile teams cribbing about the overload of meetings. Initially I also cribbed. Then, with time I became more “Agile” and then thought “communication is a key feature” of Agile. I tried to attend meetings with interest. However, I always tend to return towards cribbing about “Overload of meetings”. So, [...]
My tryst with TDD (Test Driven Development) started around 2 years back, when my tech lead told me to try to code this way. The first feeling was of shock. I admired my lead a lot due to his immense technical capability. So, this process centric stuff didn’t suited his style of work. Most of [...]
Have you ever been part of/witnessed a team trying desperately to adopt Agile, and the more they tried to adapt it, more hellish their life became ? I have seen agile adoption failures. And what I have learned from that experience is, that the problem was not Agile. The problem was the way, the processes [...]
I have been working in Agile Scrum teams all my career. I have worked in scrum teams sizes of two, three, four, eight, twelve and twenty. I have even worked in geographically distributed teams. It has been quiet an experience to work in teams of these flavor. The team dynamics basically decided the team’s productivity. [...]
Well, agile strictly says no to changing sprint backlog in middle of the sprint. However, I have faced and seen situations where changing sprint backlog looked really logical to me. The customer builds the product for selling. It’s not showcase of a perfectly modularized, architect-ed, unit tested and agile followed product. Its build for creating [...]
I have been writing Junits for a while. Sometimes I feel proud of my junit tests as they really look meaningful. However, sometimes the junit tests look so ugly and pointless. I relate this difference to the Abstraction of the code. Lets talk about abstraction first. Abstraction is generally governed by “separation of concerns”. Each [...]
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