Archive for February, 2005

it’s a boy!

Baby Rutherford was born at 9:45 this morning in Macclesfield hospital

bookcrossing

Bookcrossing looks like a neat idea

If you need information about a story in order to assess it’s business value or development cost, don’t implement the story! Instead, build a quick spike

Being a link to an explanation of the term ‘folksonomy’

If you hold your daily stand-up meetings out of sight from your task board, the team will lose focus

TDD isn’t about testing

Being a link to the original ‘cargo cult’ article

W = UH

If something is ugly or hard, then by definition it is wrong

UML is not a design tool

Knowing the UML notation does not make one a designer. But not knowing that does make one dangerous

Being a link to a useful article from Andy Pols