Customer Perception Model: Know thy customer.

lostechies.com — It's important to know how your "working" software is being received out in the field. Immediate customer feedback is one thing during a release but what about after the code actually gets out into the field. How are those users feeling! read more...

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BDD Macro and Template Usage screencast

lostechies.com — What timing I just finished reading JP's blog about how he paired with Scott Bellware and modified his Macro for BDD. Well, while they were busy doing that I decided to make a screencast on some modifications I did to JP's initial macro. I extended his macro in concert with some ReSharper templates I use to show just how to take advantage of BDD. Funny thing is I extended it to do the same thing he and Scott did but I added a little flare to it :-) Take a look at the screen cast to see what I mean. read more...

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Complexity Based Programming

lostechies.com — So what is it? As an Agile practitioner do you ever struggle having to justify Paired Programming to management? Typical management reaction to even the idea of Paired Programming is “Why would I pay two programmers to do something what one programmer can do?” You can rant and rave about quality and breadth of knowledge exchange but to management money talks and (you can fill in the rest). So what can you do to better explain the argument from a cost perspective as well as quality perspective? read more...

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Enterprise Agile Generations

lostechies.com — “The many flavors of Agile development, while powerful are very sensitive to some degree. The Adoption of these processes and practices require cultural changes from management all the way down to development and testing. The failure at any one of these points can lead to catastrophic break down in the alleged implemented Agile methodology that leaves adopters with a rather unsettling perspective of Agile all together.” In order to deal with simply having organizations give up, I was thinking of this evolutionary scale for Enterprise Agile adoption. I will refer to these evolutionary tracts as Generations. This is not an attempt to rate Agile maturity as some organization may exist fine in Gen 1 for a period of time and have great success. This is merely my perception on the possibilities of growth in Agile adoption to a certain state of development nirvana. (Do you hear the flowers singing…) J. (If there is already a term for this out there, please let me know. ) read more...

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Attempting to Demystify Behavior Driven Development

lostechies.com — After receiving several emails and reading Roy Osherove's post on Behave#, I wanted to give more incite and answer some questions that were asked about Behave# and BDD in general. read more...

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Announcing the ALT.NET Open Space Conference - Oct 5th through 7th - A

codebetter.com — We will soon open the conference website and begin to collect registrations for the ALT.NET Conference. I guess you could consider this as an official "pre" announcement. Save the date, and stay tuned! The ALT.NET conference will take place in Austin, TX from 5PM on Friday, Oct 5th, through noon on Sunday, October 7th at the St. Edwards University Professional Education Center. Participating in the organizing committee, are: Jeremy Miller Ayende Rahien Hamilton Verissimo Bret Pettichord Roy Osherove Jean-Paul Boodhoo David Laribee James Kovacs Raymond Lewallen Wendy Friedlander read more...

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More BDD xBehave Madness!

lostechies.com — Well over the past week or so I have been working off and on with improving the usage of NUnit.Behave. It started off being tightly coupled with NUnit since you actually had to inherit an abstract fixture that exposed the "Given, When, Then" BDD constructs. With a bit of tinkering with C# generics and some fluent interface magic, I managed to decouple the code into its own, dare I say, framework. read more...

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RBehave with NUnit

lostechies.com — I just read Dan North's article on Introducing RBehave. In a jealous rage of not being able to utilize Ruby fully in .Net. (YET) I decided to see if I could pull off what Dan had created in rbehave using NUnit. Because I am a huge proponent of reuse, I didn't want to extend my existing Test Coverage with a brand new framework. After all BDD coupled with ReSharper and Visual Studio make for happy testing. read more...

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