Monthly Archives: March 2009

Your [type of framework / tool] Choice is Not a Feature of Your Application

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Derick Bailey

Tim Barcz posted a great article on how the specific choice of an IoC container doesn’t really mean much in the grand scheme of the application. This line, at the bottom of the post, really sums it up for me: … Continue reading →

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Why “No Issues” Is Not An Acceptable Answer

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Derick Bailey

Many of the software development teams at my company now practice the daily standup from Scrum project management. There’s a lot of great value in these meetings, even if a team is not practicing anything else from Scrum. The Anti-Pattern … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Daily Standups, Education, Lean Systems, Management, Principles and Patterns, Retrospectives | 15 Comments

The Emergence Of Knowledge In Software Development

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Derick Bailey

At this point in my career, I’m convinced that software development is an empirical process. That is, we cannot predict the exact shape, size, complexity, … or any of a number of other properties … of the software that we … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Lean Systems, Management, Philosophy of Software, Principles and Patterns | 4 Comments

A Real Measure Of Your Core Values And Principles

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Derick Bailey

How a person behaves during the positive times and upswings in life is not a good indicator of that person’s values and principles. Find a person in a difficult time, a low point in their life – someone who has … Continue reading →

Posted in Philosophy of Software | 6 Comments

My Current BDD / SpecUnit Live Templates

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Derick Bailey

UPDATE 3-30-2009: FYI, I’ve made a few minor updates to my templates. They are now a little more intelligent – the “spec” templates automatically inherits from the parent spec file’s superclass, and all of the templates now have more intelligent … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, Behavior Driven Development, C#, Resharper, Unit Testing | 2 Comments

It’s All About The Benjamins, Baby.

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Derick Bailey

Puff Daddy got it right. No, I don’t mean having money and wealth. Never mind the actual lyrical content or intentions of those lyrics in this song. The title alone tells us everything we need to know about justifying anything … Continue reading →

Posted in Lean Systems, Management, Philosophy of Software, Throughput | 3 Comments

Book Review: The Art of Lean Software Development

Posted on March 8, 2009 by Derick Bailey

The Art of Lean Software Development This is an admittedly short book at only 122 pages. The authors felt that there was a need to have an introductory offering into the world of Lean and Agile methodologies, and have done … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Books Reviews, Lean Systems | 4 Comments