Developers using Mock Objects aren't getting better designed code. They're following the trend of the community to use Mock Object projects without understanding the mock philosophy (sic). Using mock objects is a design technique, but Mock Objects only provide a testing technique. If people use mock objects instead of Mock Objects, their designs...

Developers using Mock Objects aren't getting better designed code. They're following the trend of the community to use Mock Object projects without understanding the mock philosophy (sic). Using mock objects is a design technique, but Mock Objects only provide a testing technique. If people use mock objects instead of Mock Objects, their designs...

I have the very official title of Iteration Manager on my current project. Recently, I was involved in some discussions with another project team that wanted to follow a similar structure, and someone very observantly mentioned that they had no-one in the role of Iteration Manager. All eyes turned to me. "What do you do?" they asked. Here's some...

Speed tells us how much distance we cover over time, and velocity adds to this by giving us a direction as well. If we don't arrive at our destination on time, that can be for a few different reasons. We might not be driving fast enough, we might have spent some time going in the wrong direction, or we might have spent some time just parked by the...

Speed tells us how much distance we cover over time, and velocity adds to this by giving us a direction as well. If we don't arrive at our destination on time, that can be for a few different reasons. We might not be driving fast enough, we might have spent some time going in the wrong direction, or we might have spent some time just parked by the...

We have a bunch of different events that occur at regular times throughout the iteration on our agile project. Daily Stand-Up Meetings being a classic example. One of my colleagues, Perryn Fowler, has seen fit to delve into his library sound grabs to provide with a musical reminder of whats coming up... It all started a few weeks ago, when Perryn...

We have a bunch of different events that occur at regular times throughout the iteration on our agile project. Daily Stand-Up Meetings being a classic example. One of my colleagues, Perryn Fowler, has seen fit to delve into his library sound grabs to provide with a musical reminder of whats coming up... It all started a few weeks ago, when Perryn...

The department I am working in at the moment is moving floors. I've made enough noise about optimising are physical team layout in the past that the programme manager asked me to plan it. We had 20 seats in all that I had to fit the following people into: 1 Programme Manager (part time) 1 Project Leader (part time) 1 Release Manager 1 Business...

I've spent a couple of days worth of effort now setting up my first serious website (this one) from scratch. With any luck some people might find some useful information here that helps them out. I've learnt a bunch of stuff along the way. The design I basically made up using a combination of features I've seen on other web sites, plus a bit of...

I've spent a couple of days worth of effort now setting up my first serious website (this one) from scratch. With any luck some people might find some useful information here that helps them out. I've learnt a bunch of stuff along the way. The design I basically made up using a combination of features I've seen on other web sites, plus a bit of...