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Why Pair-Programming Works

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Recently, I’ve given a short presentation about pair-programming and the stereotypes people show while pair-programming. As always when talking about pair-programming, there is a discussion how to sell it inside a team to peer developers or even worse to managers. Their killer argument is that two people in front of a single computer result in doubled effort needed to complete software.
Let my show you why this is wrong.

Structure your code by feature

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cross-post from bbv blog
When software projects grow both in age and size the developers often struggle with the structure of the code. It gets more and more difficult to find the class you have to change for a new requirement. In this post, I’ll show you how we organize our code and how we derive our structure directly from the requirements.

No more development, TDD begins with MoreUnit

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Do you program or do you already TDD? 🙂
If you prefer to do TDD you will love the eclipse plug-in called MoreUnit. It is as simple as powerful. All it does is executing tests from corresponding productive class and makes it very simple to change between them.
Just press Ctrl-J (like Jump) to jump from test to implementing class and the other way. Or press Ctrl-R (like Run) to run the test regardless if you are in the test or the implementation class.

Presentation: Agile Code Design – how to keep your code flexible

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These are the slides along with some comments from a presentation I gave lately in the bbv .Net System boot camp – the yearly education week of my division in my company. Once upon a time, Agile Software development came to our software development country. Like a monster, Agile software methodologies scared the hell out of us. Suddenly, we had to find ways how to build software so that we could keep up with the high rate of change, just-in-time requirements and a sacrificial offering – a...

16 ideas about what a Scrum Master can do to improve team performance

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I started blogging about ideas for agile teams at 101 ideas for agile teams, check it out. cross-post from bbv Blog This is a list of actions that Scrum Masters at bbv Software Services AG have applied successfully in their teams to improve performance (= how much gets done in an amount of time). Please note that these actions were created to respond to specific problems found in real world projects. They may not be applicable in general in any situation. I’d be happy to read your...

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