"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, […]

http://www.coldewey.com/publikationen/conferences/oopsla2003/KenSchwaber.pdf  

Tonight on http://spaces.msn.com  (US) : "Want to work on one of the coolest projects at Microsoft? Are you excited about AJAX and DHTML and building fast, scalable, software? Are you […]

Nobody really knows what a Use Case description looks like. Use Cases can be written at a very high level of detail, or at a very low level, or anywhere […]

strange; I recently came across a paper of the Belgian University of Louvain La Neuve : "From Object Orientation to Goal Orientation: A Paradigm Shift for Requirements Engineering" ftp://ftp.info.ucl.ac.be/pub/publi/2003/avl-MontereyLNCS.pdf   […]

Look at a pretty interesting post from Juha-Pekka Tolvanen reporting on Grady Booch’s OOPSLA panel comments about throwing UML models away… http://www.metacase.com/blogs/jpt/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3308396982  

do you want your project to fail ? ok, choose a predictive planning (versus an adaptative planning) and …register to http://www.waterfall2006.com  (and don’t forget to put your tests at the […]

Alistair Cockburn shows a mapping between the scenarios of an UML use case and (agile) User Stories : http://alistair.cockburn.us/crystal/talks/auc/agileusecases1dy.ppt   (slide 76)  

According to Chris Sells (MS) , Scrum is becoming more and more popular at Microsoft. But I’m wondering : what about MSF(Microsoft Solution Framework) Agile at MS? why Scrum ?   Scrum is […]

I came yesterday to the (terrible) conclusion that one of my unit tests was buggy . My question is now : should we unit test our unit tests….