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We did the webinar. Definitely worth watching and/or listening to. Mike Hugos and I basically talk, for the better part of an hour, about how agile development and the 30 day blitz help companies understand that, yes, you CAN get results from the IT department
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Thank you. If it were not for alt.net, we would not be getting an MVC framework. Sometimes, my skeptic nature puts me, while not quite in the laggard crowd, certainly not in the early adopters with most things. I have a certain distaste for "purists".
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In the .net framework, every single class you ever write will violate Single Responsibility Principle (SRP). Why? Every object in .net has a method called GetHashCode. And... horrors of horrors, every object has a method called ToString. You can, and
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http://martinfowler.com/bliki/RollerSkateImplementation.html Who knew that Martin Fowler, of all people, would be into some of the same ideas that Mike Hugos and I have been evangelizing - the idea that getting something out there fast may be important
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A couple of questions I have received while giving talks, not to mention a question I see when lurking in, and occasionaly responding in, the Microsoft LINQ forum, is that LINQ to SQL is not feature complete when compared with Typed Data Sets. My response
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The delegation of folks here not from India is thinning. We are down to Mike Hugos, myself, and Paul Ulyett, an experienced IT strategist who is helping mentor our local PM in running an agile PMO. The project is running ahead of schedule, the team velocity
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This post comes to you from the Frankfurt Airport, en route to Hyderabad. One of my more eponymous colleagues is posting about our trip on CIO.com . Indeed, this trip might be my highest profile gig to date. But even bigger - if we manage to make this
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I love it when people come around :) A money quote from Martin Fowler : "The hypothesis has a corollary, which comes from the the design payoff line. If the functionality for your initial release is below the design payoff line, then it may be worth
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... well, not really. Not yet anyway :) I am off to India for two weeks, starting this upcoming Saturday, to help a large, well known developer of software learn about pragmatic agile methods (note the lower-case a), and put them in practice for what
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