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Eric Lee

Thoughts on Agile development, Scrum, ALT.NET, and whatever else comes to mind.

November 2009 - Posts

Scrum Is Not About Tools
A frequent question on the internal email groups around here is, “My team is going to start using Scrum and we need to find a good Scrum tool to use for tracking everything.  What tool should we use?”  Usually these questions come from teams Read More...
Misadventures in Legacy Code
Last week I gave a talk titled “Misadventures in Legacy Code” to the South Sound .Net User’s Group , which is the oldest .Net user’s group in the world, having been started during the days of the 1.0 beta. I’ve given presentations to groups at work before Read More...
The Number of Classes Is Not A Good Measure Of Complexity
Must . . . Resist . . . New Class . . . For some reason, most developers (me included) have this idea that the number of classes in your code base strongly indicates the complexity of your design.  Or to say it another way, we tend to freak out when Read More...
Legacy applications are like zombies
I should have posted this before Halloween when I was first thinking about it, but hey, better late than never.  Here’s what I wrote on Twitter: There are 76 different VS projects in this crazy thing I've inherited. That's about 50 projects too many. Read More...
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