Updates for 2007-08-26

Posted on August 26, 2007 by

Just finished refurbishing an Apple eMate (from eBay) with new battery cells and repaired screen hinges #
End result is a near perfect eMate with very long on-battery time – now in the hands of my 7-year old! #

Updates for 2007-08-17

Posted on August 17, 2007 by

Waiting to see the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace #
At the Tower of London #

Updates for 2007-08-16

Posted on August 16, 2007 by

Visiting the Roman Palace at Fishbourne #

Updates for 2007-08-13

Posted on August 13, 2007 by

At Lulworth Cove having lunch. After lunch will be walking to Durdle Door #
Drinking a pint of Badger beer while waiting for the food #
On the beach at Lulworth Cove #
On the beach at Durdle Door #

Updates for 2007-08-11

Posted on August 11, 2007 by

Been up to London to see the stage production of the Lion King – fabulous #
Installing iLife ’08 and iWork ’08 #

Updates for 2007-08-07

Posted on August 7, 2007 by

Just finished facilitating a Sprint planning meeting for a team’s second Sprint. #
Next some coaching on how to run a Scrum of Scrums and take an agile approach to architecture #
Back in dirty, smelly, vibrant, exciting London after 10 months away #

Pair Programming

Posted on August 7, 2007 by Simon Roberts

In PairProgrammingMisconceptions Martin Fowler makes some very good points and I agree with everything that he writes. However, I think that there is an important point that he has not mentioned: what are the alternatives?

In traditional software engineering projects, there has been widespread use of peer review (design reviews, code inspections, code walkthroughs etc.) as a means of improving code quality. Pair Programming provides a more efficient means of reviewing both design decisions and code.

Over the last few years I’ve noticed a tendency in many organisations to dispense with code reviews without replacing them with anything, let alone pair programming. If developers don’t think that anyone else will have to read their code, code quality in terms of defect density and ease of maintenance will suffer.

Updates for 2007-08-06

Posted on August 6, 2007 by

Facilitated retrospective at end of the first Sprint of a new Scrum team that I am coaching. #
Showing the team’ s ScrumMaster how to update the Product Backlog and Release Burndown at the end of the Sprint. #
Hunting for a sand timer for tomorrow’s Sprint planning. #
Trying out Quicksilver – a very cool launcher and more for OS X http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/ #

In the forest

Posted on August 6, 2007 by Simon Roberts

In the forest

Originally uploaded by sjroberts

Updates for 2007-08-05

Posted on August 5, 2007 by

Finished HP 7 yesterday. Good ending. Putting it back on the bookshelf I noticed that it is considerably shorter than it’s two predecessors. #
Arrived in Munich. Two days of work and then off to England for some holiday. #
It’s a real shame that phoned-in Twittergrams don’t work from non-US numbers. #

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