Sarah Taraporewalla’s Technical Ramblings

Those starting out on their XP or Agile journey often hear supposedly enlightening phrases touted by those in the know like “TDD will lead you to better, nicely encapsulated, decoupled code” which leaves them scratching their heads. They are scratching their heads because they understand the benefits of adopting these practices, but they can’t see [...]

I like celebrating on successes, whether it is making a test pass, finishing a task on a story or finishing the story itself. I also love celebrating what we have achieved in an iteration. If we complete 15 story points in one iteration – Great . If we completed 20 points in the last iteration, [...]

At the moment, it seems quite vogue to say your company is Agile. But what does it really mean?  Before joining ThoughtWorks, I worked for a company which decided to go Lean. To the managers, they were doing all the right things – making Lean training courses mandatory; making every employee watch videos about it and answer quizzes; incentivizing waste [...]