June 2007 - Posts
I glossed over an important point at the end of my last post when estimating the user stories. Toby does a quick tally and comes up with 18 story points. Assuming four ideal hours per working day, it should take him 36 days to complete the project For
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A colleague of mine was reading through Toby's adventures and asked why, in the name of all that is good, did our hero start coding without fully understanding the requirements . It was meant to be a mistake — he's not perfect :) I'm certainly not advocating
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Well, actually I'm going on vacation :) The adventures of Toby will continue in about two weeks when I return from holidays. On Friday Toby presents the plan to his boss, explains how you can use scrum to estimate a final release date, and works on his
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I've been a happy user of Refactor! Pro for a little while now, and recently installed the newest version (2.2.2) that adds support for Orcas Beta. However, one of the infinitely useful refactorings, Optimize References, didn't seem to work properly for
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With the end of his first week rapidly approaching, Toby resolves to come up with some sort of schedule for his boss. He also doesn't really want to look at the 'Repository' code from yesterday and is still wondering what possessed him to write it. Grabbing
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A nice update to a very solid little application was released a few days ago. You can grab the newest version here . For some reason, the link to writer.live.com didn't work for me, so I suggest using the direct downloads from the left-hand panel.
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During his brief 'vacation' from work, Toby got a chance to do some reading and is psyched to try out a few new ideas with what he already knows. After getting through the first boring day of employee training, he arrives the next morning and starts planning.
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Once upon a time, there was a man named Joe who worked as a document controller for a large construction company. His role was to track drawings for each project the company undertook. By the late 90s, with most of the world fully moved to the 'information
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I wasn't sure if I should comment on this, but the power of Agile and good programming compel me. I love TestDrive.Net . I've shown it to my group on more than one occasion and will tell anyone who will listen about it. Yes, the next version of Visual
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Two of the smartest guys I know, Brad and Scott , are making some pretty cool changes to ObjectBuilder. You can find the details here . I know both of them have been talking about introducing AOP changes to the library for quite some time and it's nice
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