Ethnographies are descriptions of people with their habits and points of difference (typically, in their natural settings). They explore the richness, depth, and complexity of some phenomena. These descriptions are based on extended observations, which make this type of studies particularly difficult...

As I was going through postings from our internal agile discussion forum (yes, we do have one at Microsoft and it’s pretty vibrant too, with, on average, about a dozen of messages daily), I came across the draft of Sara Ford’s story about how she learnt to program manage an agile team after 6 years of...

I gave two versions of my talk on the Empirical Evidence of Agile Methods : What We Know, What We Think We Know, and What We Would Like to Know at the patterns & practices summit in Québec City, Canada and the Agile Québec user group last week. Here’re the materials of the talk I promised to post...

The special edition of the IEEE Software Magazine dedicated to Test-Driven Development is out. As TDD is becoming more popular across all sizes and kinds of software engineering projects, Ron Jeffries and I specifically looked for articles reporting on non-trivial use of it: test-driving control systems...