The second D in TDD

Some proponents of TDD say, that TDD forces you to find a good design. Some even translate TDD to Test Driven Design. I don’t agree. Mostly. Lets start with the small part where I do agree. Since TDD forces you to write test first, it forces you to think about how you want to use [...]

The Definition of Done is Dead. Long Live the Remember Remember List

In our Scrum team we had a problem with our Definition of Done. We created it at the very beginning to specify what had to be done for finishing a feature. But time went by and we added cross cutting functionality to the application. So every feature now needs consideration with respect to access rights. [...]

Books I Read in 2010

Looks like a year is over again. So everybody is doing some kind of review. I’ll chip in by reviewing some of the books I read during the last year: Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations (Voices That Matter) is the follow up on Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on [...]

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