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I’m back in the saddle after having taking a couple of weeks off the internet.

This week we open with a pair of posts around TDD. First up Scott Miller of Atomic Objects ran a simple experiment: Faster, better, cheaper! TDD wins in a simple experiment and then earlier this year Mike (GeePaw) Hill wrote: How TDD and Pairing Increase Production a good explanation as to why it works.

Xavier Quesada Allue aka Mr Visual offers: Build a taskboard in 10 steps.

Not a blog post but a useful tool: Sonar from Codehaus may give a way of measuring some (but not all) of your technical debt.

Dean Leffingwell uses Little’s Law, Queuing Theory and Starbucks to show us why large backlogs are not Agile: An Agile Illusion: How That Nice Backlog is Actually Decreasing Your Team’s Agility

Anyone who has taken Agile Training from has heard my remarks about team size. Johanna Rothman gives us: “Ideal” Team Size and Ratios – I’m with her more 9-10 people on a team and you will get separate sub teams forming. On the subject of how many testers/writers does a team need? I like to start with one of each and add developers until they’re at capacity.

Richard Lawrence is chugging away and creating new versions of Cuke4Nuke – a version of cucumber that allows you write your step definitions in .NET: Screencast: Testing Web Applications in .NET with Cuke4Nuke and WatiN

Michael Dubkaov shows us why its a good idea for developers to have some slack time: Kanban Psychology. Can You Say No?

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