Writing

All my writing.

• Pair programming is just like flying a plane

  18 Jan, 2009

  I have been reading Malcom Gladwell's Outliers, and in it he discusses the events which lead to plane crashes. Gladwell explores the plane crashes of

• Improvements to the usual stand up meetings

  8 Jan, 2009

  Stand-up meetings are a healthy part of the daily routine. They are a useful forum to keep everyone up to date with the happenings of the team, escalate

• It is a truth (not so) universally acknowledged...

  7 Jan, 2009

  that an agile team in possession of good practices, must be in want of a better way of doing

• A New Take on the Hot Air Balloon Retrospective

  6 Jan, 2009

  I am not a huge fan of the iteration-based retrospectives that people usually run. These are the retrospectives in the format where you write about What

• Surf's Up meets Software Development

  20 Dec, 2008

  I have just finished watching the special features of Surf's Up on the DVD and I was struck with a thought that software development is somewhat similar