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Sunday Review: Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck
I have decided to do a dead simple book review every Sunday. Some of this is to just share what I’m reading. Rather than go with some complex rating system a book will either be a thumbs up [...]
Posted in Agile, Sunday Book Review
Tagged Agile, excellence, extreme programming, gtd, motivation, pair programming, Productivity, programming, theory, xp
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Sunday Review: Practices of an Agile Develoeper by Andy Hunt
I have decided to do a dead simple book review every Sunday. Some of this is to just share what I’m reading. Rather than go with some complex rating system a book will either be a thumbs up [...]
Posted in Agile, Productivity, Sunday Book Review
Tagged Agile, excellence, motivation, pair programming, planning, Productivity, reading
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Sunday Review: The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Great practical advice on how to become a better programmer. If you write code [...]
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Tagged discipline, excellence, pair programming, programming, reading
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Dysfunctions of (Agile) Teams
Over the holiday break I read Patrick Lencioni‘s “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable“. The premise is that each dysfunction builds upon the dysfunction before it. Much like Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Below is an illustration of [...]
Posted in Agile, Integrum, Productivity
Tagged accountability, Agile, commitment, conflict, excellence, focus, innovation, Integrum, motivation, pair programming, planning, politics, results, team, teams, teamwork, theory, trust
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Something Better Than Pair Programming
You thought pair programming was good? You thought it was effective? Well… It hasn’t got anything on QUAD Programming!!! Some developers over at Integrum drank some powerthirst. Thankfully, we did not end up with 400 babies. We did [...]
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Tagged Agile, pair programming, powerthirst, quad programming, xp
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Pairing Programming In Loud Environments
At our Ruby on Rails development shop, Integrum we engage in an XP practice called pair programming. Over the last six months we have seen more interest from the community on some of our agile practices. At recent Gangplank Hacknight [...]
