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Mocking Kata – Instrument Processor (.NET)

By Urs Enzler
In .NET, Test Driven Development
March 28, 2010
3 Min read
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We use Coding Katas in Coding Dojos to improve our programming skills. This includes skills in software design, refactoring, Test Driven Development, Mocking, tool usage and a lot of other tiny stuff. However, I found only a few Katas, especially Katas including the need for mocks (see for example ). Most Katas are very algorithmic, which is good for learning TDD. But its bad for learning how to use mocks. Therefore, I started to invent my own Mocking Katas. I use these in my training courses...

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Self-Organized also means having cojones

By Daniel Marbach
In Agile, Methodology
March 21, 2010
2 Min read
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Living and breathing Scrum means for a team being self organized. My experience in different Scrum projects tells me that this is not always an easy task to grasp. Experienced Agile teams are self organized when it comes to maintain the code base or gathering information for user stories from the product owner. But what happens when soft skills are involved?

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Updated Books Page

By Urs Enzler
In Uncategorized
March 20, 2010
1 Min read
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Once again, a new book joins the books I’ve read on my shelf: Agile Coaching by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley.
Take a look at the books page for my short review.
Happy reading!

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Windows Phone 7: Hope has come

By Daniel Marbach
In Mobile, Software
February 16, 2010
1 Min read
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Finally the latest news about Windows Phone 7 is arrived and it seems that Microsoft has ultimately learned its lessons. Windows Phone 7 has a totally news concept regarding what we are used to have with the Windows Mobile editions. But the Windows Phone 7 concept is not only new for “Microsoftish” phones it is also totally new for all smart phone operating systems on the market (including iPhone).

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A Sprint in Scrum is not an Iteration

By Urs Enzler
In Agile, Methodology
February 13, 2010
2 Min read
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When I talk with fellow developers new to Scrum, I often hear a fundamental misunderstanding about Sprints. These colleagues  are normally used to Waterfall or RUP methodologies. As a consequence, they think of Sprints as very short repetitions of the following phases: requirements (planning meeting), design, implementation, test (sprint review as acceptance).
And this is completely wrong!
Let me tell you why.

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Found A New Agile Community

By Urs Enzler
In Uncategorized
January 17, 2010
1 Min read
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I found a promising community on agile software development created by Kelly Waters.
If you are interested in agile development then check it out (click on banner):

Visit Agile Community

Kelly Waters

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Github: failed to push some refs

By Daniel Marbach
In Announcement
January 14, 2010
1 Min read
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I’m heavily experimenting with git using github.com. Just in case you’ll ever receive the following error message:
failed to push some refs
Don’t panic as I did! Just need to make a pull request first because there might be changes that we need to pull in. Afterwards it is easy possible to push your changes to github.com. Have fun!

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