Agile coding, agile testing, agile coaching, the agile enterprise, and Network Weaving.
Jean Tabaka and others devised this statement, and I love it. I heartily endorse it. To my mind, community provides the best mechanism for continuous learning, for continuous improvement, and for whatever safety we can expect from the world. Were I asked, I would add the meme of Network Weaving as an essential evolutionary mechanism [...]
Ever Had a Client Stuck in a Nasty Situation? Ever Had a Bird Trapped in Your House? I’ve had both. In both cases, I learned not to mess up in the following way: trying to grab the bird and toss it out of the house. Birds hate that, and are really skillful at resisting the [...]
My pal Abby Fichtner, the HackerChick, blogged today about emerging agile team leadership patterns and practices, as had been reinforced for her by a recent presentation by David Spann. She lists beliefs and behaviors that, according to Spann, when held by whomever actually manages an agile team, tend to help or tend to hurt. These resonated [...]
CodeRetreat #1 set a pretty high standard for fun, learning, engagement, connection, and community building. CodeRetreat#2 at LeanDog blew that standard away. More people showed up. More passion and creativity and humor showed up. Corey Haines and J.B. Rainsberger showed up again (and J.B. brought his wife Sarah), and Cheezy showed up. Chris Judd and [...]
Yay Team Man, did we have fun at the first CodeRetreat in Ann Arbor, MI, sponsored by Pillar Technology. We had 25 or so programmers show up, including 5 dedicated software craftsmen who assisted me as Master Rabble Rousers for the event. So special thanks indeed to Ron Jeffries, Chet Hendrickson, Corey Haines, Bill Wake, [...]
Learning Happens No matter what happens, learning happens. I say this a lot. As many of you know, I joined the agile community way behind the OO-developer-competence 8-ball years ago. I had done lots of procedural programming in the small, but I had had poor instruction overall, and I was not learning OO well on [...]
I really have no excuse for taking this long to join the zillions of bloggers out there. I have some experiences to share, some music, some poetry. And I am a firm believer in the hilariously explosive zillion-to-zillion overpublishing of the blogosphere. Let us all share our gold, our dross! So may I follow through [...]