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Monday, August 04, 2008 10:16 AM

Acceptance Testing Guide Community Preview 2 Available!

As I have mentioned before in a few posts ( Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance , Acceptance Testing Guidance Survey , and Acceptance Testing Guide Update ), I am working with a team on guidance around acceptance testing . We still have a lot of work
Posted by mpuleio | 1 Comments
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:55 PM

ScrumBut

I worked on my first XP project with John Boal. He recently did a post on ScrumBut . I have mentioned ScrumBut and Scrummerfall before, but this is a good, quick read with a few good tips. A lot of the concepts carry over to XP as well. I'll add something
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Friday, April 18, 2008 2:48 PM

Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance

As I mentioned before ( Acceptance Testing Guidance , Grigori's Take on the Acceptance Testing Project ), I am working on guidance around acceptance testing with Grigori . We now have alive CodePlex site that we can work from: patterns & practices:
Posted by mpuleio | 2 Comments
Thursday, April 03, 2008 2:52 PM

Acceptance Testing Guidance

On Monday, Grigori and I kicked off a new project: Acceptance Testing Guidance Actually, we kicked off a pre-project planning project. In two to three weeks, we need to decide if there is enough demand for guidance on acceptance testing to warrant a real
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 4:30 PM

Data-mining for Code Quality Metrics

I spent two weeks between full time projects (still working on the 2 part time projects I am on) looking back at the build logs from the past 6 months (or so) trying to figure out what metrics we have, what we should track going forward, and what goals
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Saturday, March 22, 2008 10:48 AM

"I need a new co-worker", or "p&p is Hiring"

Peter Provost left p&p a month or two ago*, and Ade Miller is now our Dev Lead. However, this leaves a gap in the dev team here at p&p, and leaves us with more work than people. If you are a strong developer and love doing agile development, apply
Posted by mpuleio | 2 Comments
Sunday, November 11, 2007 5:50 PM

Front Page of the Seattle Times!

This morning, I was sitting in a local coffee shop, drinking a latte, and I checked my email on my phone since I was expecting a response from someone. In my inbox was an email from Keith Pleas (the organizer of the p&p Summit) that the Seattle Times
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Friday, June 01, 2007 10:38 AM

CNN Series on the Future of the Office

A few weeks ago, a film crew from CNN International visited Microsoft to do a segment on how Microsoft is looking at the workplace of the future ( Alan talked about it at the time ). They talked to the Workplace Advantage group, the team that helped patterns
Posted by mpuleio | 2 Comments
Monday, February 26, 2007 3:44 PM

Thoughts on Code Coverage

Jim Newkirk and Brad Wilson have an interesting blog post on code coverage and what it means . They have some interesting ideas to think about. On my last project, I ran covereage numbers at fairly regular intervals. At one point, the trend sharpy dropped,
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Friday, January 26, 2007 11:33 PM

How are unit tests different from acceptance tests?

There was a question on one of the internal aliases today about the difference between unit tests and acceptance tests. I responded with my take on it. After some consideration, I decided to share this with the world as well. Of course, I have edited
Posted by mpuleio | 3 Comments
Wednesday, November 01, 2006 2:39 PM

Ideal Days Aren't...

Mitch has an interesting post ( http://blogs.msdn.com/mitchl/default.aspx ) that talks about ideal developer days, and he hits the nail on the head... There are no ideal developer days.... Ever. Planning and estimating using them is kidding yourself,
Posted by mpuleio | 4 Comments
Friday, October 13, 2006 10:14 AM

"We are doing Scrum, BUT..."

Eric Gunnerson has a great post on ScrumBut . As a ScrumMaster (certified, certifiable, whatever) I agree with what he says completely. I've said it before when talking about Brad's ScrummerFall post , but Eric sums it up very well. ScrumBut is NOT Scrum.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006 10:49 PM

Team Rooms Increase Productivity

Today, I saw two very interesting things. First, Peter pointed out that Channel 9 has a tour of the new p&p space . (I know that I have mentioned the space at least three times in the past, but I'm still excited about it. I'm excited not only by what
Posted by mpuleio | 5 Comments
Friday, September 22, 2006 1:00 AM

Why Did I Go Agile? Part Three: Scrum

In my other posts in this series, I shared why I was open to trying agile ideas, and I discussed how and why I adopted TDD ( Part One: An Open Mind and Part Two: TDD ). At the end of the project cycle that sold me on TDD, I was approached by one of the
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Thursday, September 21, 2006 1:00 AM

Why Did I Go Agile? Part Two: TDD

As I mentioned in the first post in this series, Part One: An Open Mind , I was ready for change and willing to try TDD. I had just joined the team that was forming to deliver a large project in a short timeframe. I was responsible for an entire subsystem
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