A couple of weeks ago Clarke Ching interviewed me as part of his Everyday Agile initiative. The discussion describes what happened when one of my clients, Codeweavers, invited me to participate in kicking off a new project. You can download the MP3 directly from here. Warning: The sound quality and levels are very poor, because… [Read more…]
May 26, 2008
Clarke asked me to explain my earlier throw-away remark that YAGNI forms part of the EXPLOIT step in moving the bottleneck away from development, so here goes… YAGNI (You Aren’t Gonna Need It) is an exhortation from the early days of XP. It has been discussed and misunderstood a great deal, so I’m not going… [Read more…]
September 11, 2007
My apologies if this has been said or written a thousand times before: YAGNI is XP’s way of exploiting the constraint. Which means that XP, and hence most agile methods, are set up on the assumption that the development team is – or soon will be – the bottleneck. And having identified that bottleneck, our… [Read more…]
August 5, 2005
In which Joel Spolsky makes a compelling argument in favour of hiring only the best programmers
June 21, 2005
There seems to be a grand misconception that "being agile" is about TDD and pair programming. It isn't
July 30, 2004
Delivering value is more important than installing a method from a textbook
I'm Kevin Rutherford, from Macclesfield in the UK. I'm an independent agile software coach and mentor, specialising in test-driven development, agile, lean and the theory of constraints.
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