Software People Inspiring

September 2010

2^nd Its Not How Fast we Deliver, It's How Fast We Learn

1^st Session Inspirations for SC2010

August 2010

29^th Donate One Day's Pay To Bletchley Park

24^th Express Yourself In Code: Seeking Session Leaders for SC2010

20^th [Video] Rock S.O.L.I.D. - S is for Single Responsibility

20^th OO Design Principles In Practice

13^th SC2010 Session Leaders

13^th Rock S.O.L.I.D. OO Master Class In Aid Of Bletchley Park

10^th Software Craftsmanship 2010 Is Full

10^th Eden Development Sponsors Software Craftsmanship 2010

9^th Just 14 Places Left At SC2010

7^th Long, Complicated Method. Guess What It Does?

2^nd SC2010 Tickets Selling Fast

1^st Codemanship Presents Test-driven Development

July 2010

30^th Codemanship's Code Smell Of The Week - Lazy Classes Part II

29^th Codemanship's Code Smell Of The Week - Lazy Classes (Part I)

20^th Register For Software Craftsmanship 2010

19^th Codemanship's Code Smell Of The Week - Inappropriate Intimacy

16^th Codemanship's Code Smell Of The Week - Switch Statements

15^th Amazing Value Offer Ends Tomorrow - £2,400-worth of Software Craftsmanship Training For Under £400

15^th Codemanship's Code Smell Of The Week - Data Clumps

14^th The Customer Holds The Key To The City of Agile

14^th Codemanship's Code Smell Of The Week - Data Classes

14^th Codemanship's Code Smell Of The Week - Long Parameter Lists

13^th Codemanship's Code Smell Of The Week - Feature Envy

12^th Codemanship's Code Smell Of The Week - Comments

12^th Object Oriented Design Master Class, London Aug 21-22

11^th Bonus Code Smell Of The Week - Divergent Change (Clean Separation)

11^th Codemanship's Code Smell Of The Week - Divergent Change

10^th Give it a bloody REST!

9^th This Week I Have Been Mostly Saving Bletchley Park

7^th Boffoonery! Out Now on Amazon and iTunes

June 2010

30^th Early Bird Offer For TDD Master Class, July 17-18

26^th Codemanship's Bonus Code Smell Of The Week - Subtle Message Chains

26^th Codemanship's Code Smell Of The Week - Message Chains

26^th TDD master Class July 17-18 Early Bird Offer

21^st Budget-friendly Refactoring Master Class, London July 24-25

20^th Bonus Code Smell Of The Week - Duplication II : Copy & Paste Inheritance

20^th Codemanship's Code Smell Of The Week - Duplicate Code (Part I)

17^th Codemanship's Code Smell Of The Week - Long Methods

14^th Codemanship Academy Alumni - I Salute You

9^th Budget-friendly Weekend TDD master class, Early Bird Special Offer

4^th It's Official. Budget/Schedule-friendly TDD Masterclass in London, July 3-4

1^st Budget-Friendly Weekend Masterclasses in TDD, Refactoring and OO Design for Summer 2010

May 2010

20^th With So Many More Cameras Looking, Shouldn't We Have Proof Of Flying Saucers By Now?

19^th Another Rant About Reinventing The Wheel And Against Yet More Navel-Gazing

8^th Mastering Refactoring & Clean Code Through Peer Group Learning & Assessment

1^st Boffoonery! Audio Update

April 2010

27^th Gorman's Law

24^th Software Is Both Art & Science. Can We Move On Now?

17^th I Have A Dirty Secret. I'm A Software Craftsman

March 2010

31^st Software Craftsmanship 2010 - Date, Venue & Price

30^th Training 4 Bletchley - Peer Group Learning & Assessment Workshop, Bletchley Park, Sept 16th

25^th Would You Give Up One Day's Pay To Help Bletchley Park?

22^nd Join My UK Institute of Software Development. Or Don't. Whatever.

9^th QCon London Slides & Notes

February 2010

25^th If You Want Things Done Right, Manage Yourselves

24^th Code Metrics Show Convincing Picture Of Impact Of Peer-based Craftsmanship Coaching

20^th When Does "Delivered" Not Mean Delivered?

19^th SC2010 Audition Video - Refactoring Golf

15^th Software Craftsmanship 2010 Will Still Be in 2010 - But A Bit Later Than Originally Planned

15^th Wheel-driven Reinvention

January 2010

8^th First Auditions For Software Craftsmanship 2010 Point The Way

December 2009

30^th Celebrate The New Year With Some Rubbish Demos I Recorded In 2009

15^th Value Is Not The Opposite Of Waste: Why I Don't Buy Into Process Improvement

10^th Seeking Coaches For Software Craftsmanship 2010

November 2009

26^th FizzBuzz Java TDD Example Feedback

21^st Auditioning For Software Craftsmanship 2010

16^th A Little Practice Can Put You Head & Shoulders Above The Rest

15^th Skepticism Is What Software Development Needs Now

12^th Our Goal Is To Minimise Coupling Between Classes. Not To Eliminate Getters And Setters.

10^th Scrum or Kanban? Pick One And Get On With Delivering Quality Code!

10^th Boffoonery On BBC Radio 5 Live

6^th The Big Post-Show Boffoonery Blog Post

5^th Supercrush by Devin Townsend...

October 2009

27^th If You Really Need An Architect To Make The Code Good, Sack The Rest Of The Team

17^th So You Think You're "Refactoring"?

September 2009

30^th Performance Metrics Often Hide The Reality From Managers

23^rd Marketing Codemanship: What Search Terms Do I Pick?

21^st Be First To Hear When Boffoonery! Audio Download Is Available

12^th Derren Brown's Lottery Trick - Damp Squib

12^th Agile & Formal Methods in Latest Edition Of Computer Magazine

11^th Standing Room At Boffoonery!

8^th Looks Like Boffoonery! Has Sold Out

7^th Anti-Competitive Trend Is Worrying

3^rd Bletchley Park 70th Anniversary & Getting Our Priorities Straight

August 2009

21^st What Makes Social Networks Grow Also Kills Them

18^th Boffoonery! Almost Sold Out. Help Us To Finish The Job!

14^th Boffoonery! Article on wired.co.uk

13^th More Showing. More Doing. Less Talking. SC2010 Aspirations

12^th Boffoonery! Tickets On Sale Now. Stephen Fry Lends His Support Via Twitter.

9^th Final Year Software Engineering Projects Suggest Pitifully Low Standards

9^th Macs Are Better (Because They Suck)

2^nd Boffoonery! - How You Can Help

July 2009

31^st Boffoonery! News

24^th How Many SEO's Are Also Homeopaths?

23^rd My Entry In Software Craftsmanship Wandering Book Thingummyjig

22^nd Democracy's Fundamental Flaw

19^th Is "Digital Britain" Report A Faux Geek Charter?

18^th A Doing Word

9^th RFP for Software Crapmanship 2009

7^th Screen Captures Hold Key To Raising Your Game

7^th Agent-based Model Shows That Promoting The Most Competent Harms Organisations

1^st Boffoonery! Comedy Benefit For Bletchley Park. London, Nov 3rd.

1^st Software Craftsmanship Is Not Rolling Stone

June 2009

27^th Dear parlezuml.com: I'd Like To Work In Computing, But I Have No Technical Skills

21^st Free Pencil & Paper UML Trial Edition

13^th Agile Coaching Book Out Soon

11^th Software Craftsmanship North America, August 26th, Chicago

9^th Software Craftsmanship 2010 Straw Poll

May 2009

26^th Devin Townsend's Ki

22^nd Government Shirks Funding Responsibility For Bletchley Park. Down To Us, Then.

18^th EU Proposes Consumer Protection Against Buggy Games

14^th Design Principles Finally Coming Into Fashion In The .NET Community (Hurrah!)

14^th Will Poor Software Craftsmanship In Breath Test Kit Lead To Acquittal?

12^th Blog Post on bbc.co.uk About Stephen Fry's Visit To Bletchley Park

11^th Bletchley Park News

April 2009

30^th Codemanship Is Coming

23^rd Software Craftsmanship: We Care. We Learn. We Practice. We Share.

19^th How Are Kids Learning To Program These Days?

16^th Is Twitter Dead?

16^th Twitter Re-Educates Me On "Value"

14^th Make Roles Explicit: Another Brand New Idea From the Distant Past

11^th Software Craftsmanship - Let's Lead By Example, Not Rule By Decree

11^th Being Skeptical About Metrics != Dismissing All Metrics

8^th SPA2009, SC2010, Carpool & General Nonsense

7^th SPA2009 Session Practical - Scalable.NET Design Reviews Using Automated Code Analysis

March 2009

22^nd Physicist Tests Journal of Cultural Studies - Finds Relativism Gone Mad!

18^th The Movement Formerly Known As "Software Craftsmanship"

14^th Applied Software Craftsmanship - Shall We Walk The Walk This Time? UPDATED (AGAIN)

7^th Craftsmen vs. Consultants - How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall?

6^th My Lovely But Still Overdue SC2009 Summary

6^th Software Craftsmanship 2009 Follow-Up

February 2009

28^th Software Craftsmanship 2009 Vox Pops UPDATED

28^th Burn The Perfectionist!

22^nd Camp Scrum

22^nd Scrum Is To Software Development...

20^th Love Isn't... Moving Office Without Telling You!

18^th Computer Programming vs. Software Development

17^th Contracts Obtained By Threats

17^th Are We No Better Than Those UFO Nuts? The Case for a Software "Enlightenment"

15^th If You Want To Be Truly Agile, Work On Your Developer Fitness

8^th Is Fearne Cotton The Worst Twittizen?

7^th In Defence of Bob and Kent

7^th Spurious ID Theft Statistics?

5^th Twittizenship - A Metric-In-Progress

5^th Mathematical Illiteracy In The USA - A Startling Illustration by Verizon Employees

4^th Stephen Fry Boosts Bletchley Park Campaign Through Twitter

3^rd Social Media Goes Realtime

1^st Fermi's Paradox & Other Scientific Conceits UPDATED

January 2009

31^st Send Me Your Nominations for Algorithms That Changed The World

28^th Why Refactoring Is Like Snooker - UPDATED

25^th Reminder - Blogging For Bletchley, The Counting House, Tuesday Jan 27th

25^th My TDD Might Reduce Procrastination

23^rd Jon Stewart on "Values"

20^th Are Dynamic Languages The New Black (Again)?

20^th Blogging For Bletchley - Meeting in London, Tues Jan 27th

19^th 8 yr Old Boy Gets Microsoft Certification

18^th Hard Work & Practice In Programming - Article Link

13^th Long-term Peer-led Learning - Getting Into Good Habits

12^th Disciplined Troubleshooting

10^th Should UI Design Come Last?

8^th I'm On Twitter

8^th Software Craftsmanship 2009 Programme Announced

8^th Does Johnny Ball Support Intelligent Design?

7^th Kidnap Avoidance Expert Gets Kidnapped in Mexico

2^nd XDepend - Like NDepend, But For Java

December 2008

27^th Time Passing

27^th Second SC2009 Sessions Preview

25^th Merry Xmas - In A Rational, Secular Kind Of Sense

23^rd Dependencies & The "Credit Crunch"

22^nd OCL is a dead language. Universities: stop wasting time teaching it.

21^st SC2009 - Registration Re-Opened

17^th Job Alert - City, London. Senior Agile .NET Developers Required

17^th SC2009 - First Session Confirmed

14^th Confirming Your Place At Software Craftsmanship 2009

11^th Software Craftsmanship 2009 - 3 Weeks Left To submit Your Session Proposal

11^th Inversion of Control Is More Common Than You Think

8^th It Takes More Than A Few Weeks!

6^th You Still Have To Know How To Play

6^th More On Refactoring & Test Assurance

6^th Should I Run All Tests After Every Refactoring?

3^rd Software Craftsmanship 2009 - Half-Full Already

1^st Even Amazon Screw Up Occasionally

November 2008

28^th When Will Managers Start Admitting That Skill Is A Major Factor?

26^th Software Craftsmanship 2009 Mini-site Launched

23^rd Craftsmanship On Stage. In The Booking Software? Not So Much...

19^th Gorman's Law of Tacit Architecture

18^th Software Craftsmanship 2009 Request For Session Proposals

17^th We're Doing Agile. So Why Is Our Code Still Crap?

10^th Comparing The OT99 Programme To SPA2009

10^th SPA 2009 - Scalable .NET Code Reviews

9^th Software Craftsmanship 2009 - What's It All About?

6^th How Much Cheese Would It Take To Sink An Elephant?

4^th Predictably Irrational On Holiday (Again)

October 2008

29^th David Tennant Quitting Dr Who

29^th Aspect-Oriented Programming On The Cheap

28^th Software Craftsmanship 2009 - Conference In Development

26^th Outsourcing The "Build Phase"

24^th Example Agile Quality Assurance Strategy

24^th Could A Recession Open up The Market For High Quality "Boutique" Software Development?

23^rd Will The Credit Crunch Crunch Quality?

23^rd Writing Thread-safe Code - What Can Go Wrong With Multithreaded Logic?

23^rd Multithreaded Unit Testing Utility for .NET

22^nd Concutest - Framework for Testing Multithreaded Java

22^nd Musings On Testing Multithreaded Logic

21^st Software Development Is Not "Office Work"

21^st Reality? What Reality?

14^th The WAgile Software Development Life Cycle

13^th Productive Teams Are Business Assets. Recognise Your Investment In Building Them.

13^th Draft Article - Managing Software Dependencies - Lessons From The Credit Crunch

10^th Surviving Mock Abuse - My Entirely Arbitrary & Unproven Guidelines For Safe Mocking

9^th Projects Rarely Fail For Technical Reasons?

7^th Sylvester McCoy Is Actually The 7th Doctor

7^th CITCON Europe 2008 - In Brief

September 2008

30^th New XP Practice: "Actually Doing It"

27^th Damning With Faint Praise

27^th Name That Language - UPDATED

24^th We're All Apprentices - But Only Some Of Us Know It

22^nd Small World

20^th SPI - "Software People Inspiring"

19^th So Much For The Free Market

17^th Clear Up Misunderstandings - Get Practical

16^th Test-driven Enterprise Architecture

10^th And People Say My Interviews Are Tough...

9^th Targeted Marketing (Or Not)

8^th Continuous Recruitment & Hoarding Talent

5^th Mock Objects in the Movies

4^th New Book In Progress - Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided By Tests

2^nd "I need someone to program me a new OS"

2^nd Last Call for SPA 2009 Submissions

August 2008

31^st Totally Test-driven Scrum Delivers Better Objectivity In Measuring Real Progress

31^st The Holy Grail of Realtime Feedback

29^th I Need To Know EVERYTHING

26^th [jobs] TDD Coach. New York State.

20^th Software vs. Comedy

20^th UPDATE: Who Writes Nester?

18^th Software Architect Required To Start Monday

16^th Agile Design Training Course - Launched Today

13^th Falling Between The Cracks - When Your Processes Don't Allow You To Adapt

13^th Address The Mindset Rather Than The Decision

8^th Trust + Realism - Two Essential Qualities For Successful Project Teams

5^th Tests Are Instances Of Rules

4^th Minicab Firm Makes Frightening Admission

2^nd Software Developers Make Bad Customers

July 2008

28^th PowerPoint Jockey Required

23^rd Ever-Decreasing Cycles - Draft Article

21^st Video Conferencing

15^th Au Revoir, BBC. It's Been Great.

10^th Patrick Smacchia's Write-Up On Detecting Untested New/Changed Code

9^th Finding Untested New Or Changed Methods Using NDepend

8^th Holistically Speaking...

8^th Identifying High Risk .NET Code With NDepend

7^th Agile Governance Game - Recap

6^th Dr Who Series Finale Thank You

June 2008

29^th The World Has Finally Gone Mad

23^rd Self-Directed Learning & A New Direction for Little Old Me

21^st "Don't You Know Who I Am?"

19^th miniSPA 2008

16^th Pro-Waterfall Rant Highlights Nature Of The Delusion

16^th Back To Work

9^th Catching Up With icareaboutsoftware.org

5^th Challenging The Waterfall Delusion

4^th Dynamic Languages, Substitutability & Unreused Abstractions

4^th Mobile Computing Finally Arrives At Casa Gorman

May 2008

30^th The Most Buzzword-Loaded Company Name Ever?

30^th Thanks To Matt Wynne

30^th Waterfall vs. Sheep Worrying - Which Looks Worse On A CV?

28^th Want Lasting Change? Focus On Culture & Values

27^th Information Systems Aren't Always Software

22^nd Everything Is Agile. Agile Is Everything.

20^th Satisfying Your Users Is Like Satisfying Your Lover

17^th Rushing Your Code (An Illustrated Metaphor)

16^th UML Is Alive And Well (And On A Whiteboard Near You)

15^th User Interfaces Are A Graphical Domain-Specific Language

9^th Tackling Quality At Board Level - Removing The Rose-Tinted Glasses

8^th Executable Acceptance Tests Could Drive Development Rather Than UI Mock-ups

7^th ASP.NET Encourages Procedural UI Coding?

3^rd Another Post-Agile Job Advertisement

April 2008

30^th Freelancers Are People Too

29^th Conservation of Difficulty

25^th Dependency Rejection

23^rd My "Simple" 30-Minute Project Was Delivered 10 Minutes Late

22^nd Test-driven Development Illustrated for .NET

22^nd Blog's 3rd Birthday

22^nd Father & Daughter Discover Weather Reports Little Better Than Chance

22^nd My School

18^th Let's Get It Straight, Shall We?

18^th Keep Design Sessions Focused "In The Now"

14^th Same Old Same Old - Most Projects Suffer The Same Ailments

12^th Agile Viral With - er - Interesting Production Values

11^th Phase Transition Illustrates Waterfall-Agile (or is it "WAgile")?

7^th Media Giant Seeks Talented Post-Agile .NET Professionals (London, UK)

6^th Promote Your Software Industry Event

4^th Another Continuous Background Testing Tool

4^th Feynman Lectures Available Online

2^nd Inversion of Control - Are We Sweeping Dependencies Under the Carpet?

2^nd RE: The Future of TDD

1^st The Future Of TDD - Real-Time Feedback As You Type?

March 2008

31^st Code Usability Testing

30^th Should Our Economy Be Based On Invention?

28^th Where's The Passion

27^th RE: Would Developers Take More Care..?

27^th Do Software Developers Need A Muse?

26^th Would Developers Take More Care If They Knew THEY Will Be Maintaining The Code?

26^th Test ASSURANCE Is The Real Goal

24^th Architects with a Capital "A" - You Work In Sales

20^th Inspired By Inspiration

16^th Scrum Delivers Nothing

15^th Zappa On Movements

11^th Test Code Is Production Code, And Test Coders Are Developers

10^th Patterns vs. Principles = Recall vs. Insight

7^th Beaten By Bad Bean Burger

5^th Elephant In The Room - Sanitized, Apolitical Fairytale Version

4^th The Elephant In The Room

1^st Customers: Your Software Sucks. So Why Don't You Care?

February 2008

29^th Estimating: Another Bloody Golf Analogy

28^th Earning vs. Learning

27^th Speed Comes Later. Start Slow. Focus On Getting It Right.

27^th Quality Trends Can Reveal Inadequate Refactoring Effort

26^th Return Of The Son Of Project Voodoo

25^th Google Trends Reveals Falling Interest in XP

23^rd Agile Dance Number Caught On Video

22^nd Is Software Developer Certification Already Here?

21^st Would File Compression Reveal Extent Of Code Duplication?

20^th Kinetic Consultants Are Not For The Faint-Hearted

19^th Write All Your Logic In JavaScript and SQL (And Other Really Bad Ideas)

18^th I Most Certainly Do Not Condone 2-Tier Client-Server

16^th .NET Build Engineer Required, London, UK

14^th The Limits Of Unit Testing Are No Excuse For Skimping

13^th Can't Code, Won't Code - The Shortest Technical Interview.

12^th Test-driven Object-Relational Persistence

11^th Simple Object Persistence - When, Goddamit?!

8^th Lack Of Test Coverage Guarantees Lack Of Test Assurance

6^th Scrum vs. Gorman - It's War! (According To Some)

6^th Suggestion For Class Repackaging Tool

5^th Putting Words In My Mouth - I Never Said That Scrum Doesn't Work

5^th Have You Caught The Scrum-Pox Yet?

4^th You Cannot Buy Parlezuml.com Training Anywhere Else

January 2008

30^th "People Who Know Nothing"

29^th Me To A "T"

29^th "Are We Doing Too Much Refactoring?" - I'll Give You 3 Guesses

28^th Don't Rely On Database Technology For Sorting & Searching

28^th How Scrum Spreads - The Scrum Viral Life Cycle

25^th CV Faux Pas

25^th The Secret Of Great Cooking Is Good Ingredients

24^th Poor Tool Support Discourages Package Architecture Optimisation

23^rd Virus-Induced Antiwork - If You're Infectious, Stay Home!

22^nd Consultants Are Placebos

21^st Architecture vs. Design - An Artificial Distinction?

19^th Domain-Specific Languages: The Big, Dirty Secret

18^th The Business Case For Quality - Shouldn't We All Know This By Now?

17^th SOA Dependency Management Principles

16^th Test-driven Workspace Design

16^th Visual Modeling of Regular Expressions

15^th UML Jokes? You Must Be Kidding!

14^th Fancy Some Agile Coaching Work In The Chicago Suburbs?

14^th Proof That Value Has Little To Do With Quality?

11^th Response To My Post About Crappy Code in Crap4J

9^th Crimes Against Usability - Windows Vista & Office 2007

9^th Crap4J Contains Long Methods

8^th Measurement Can Cause Loss Of Swagger

7^th SOA Doesn't Work In A Disjointed Enterprise

4^th Are The Barriers To Excellence Really Where We Think They are?

4^th Post-Post-Agile Response from CEO of NetObjectives

3^rd Detecting Code Smells - Requires Formal Definitions?

2^nd Post-Post-Agile

December 2007

27^th New Year's Resolution? Raise The Quality Bar

21^st Christmas Is Coming!

18^th Schools of Package Architecture - An Illustration

18^th Resist The Pressure of Arbitrary Deadlines - A Christmas Message

17^th Project Quality Charter - Setting Out To Deliver Quality

14^th Complex Jobs Are Not Suited To CVs or Time Tracking

13^th Agile 2008 Open For Submissions

12^th More Places Where Bugs Can Hide

10^th Socks Go In The Sock Draw (And Other Approaches To Package Architecture)

7^th Want To Scale Up Agile? Learn To Let Go.

7^th Unified Principles of Dependency Management & An Explanation of the Value of High Test Coverage

6^th Shorter Methods Helps Localise The Ripple Effect

5^th How Do You Eat An Elephant? (The Surreal Version)

3^rd Mutation Testing Drives A Bus Through the Gaps Between Your Code And Your Tests

November 2007

30^th Hell Is Other Architects

29^th News From XPDay 07!

29^th What Happened at XPDay 07?

29^th Containment & Delegation vs. Implementation Inheritence - The Proof?

28^th Unifying Package & Type Dependency Metrics

27^th Class Distance From The Main Sequence

27^th Quality Cultures Are Often Products Of Developer Disobedience

26^th I Am The World's Greatest Software Developer

21^st Postcard From Fuerteventura #2

19^th My Tip for a Perfect Holiday - Frosted Beer Glasses

14^th Test-driven Development Is Not About Testing

13^th How Good Are Your Unit Tests?

12^th Example Design Quality Review

9^th Quantum Scheduling (with Joel On Drums)

8^th Schrodinger's Plan

6^th Enterprise-scale Reuse - An Illustrated Example

6^th Latency Is the Price Of Agility

5^th SPI - The Teams Make It Happen. Not The Consultants.

2^nd Things We Know We Should Do That Nobody Wants To Pay For

1^st Does Automating Metrics Help For Comparing Apples With Apples?

October 2007

31^st Bonfire Night For Beginners

31^st Conflict Is Good (Within Reason)

30^th Fleshing Out A Reusable Code Model for Analysis & Metrics

24^th SOA Design Metric - Lack of Cohesion of Services

23^rd How Dependency Inversion Works

22^nd Dependency Management & Relative Cost of Change

22^nd You Are All Crap (And Other Dashboard Faux Pas)

18^th Formal Code Inspections in a Post-Agile World

17^th How Much "Almost Perfect" Code Can A Team Deliver In A Day?

17^th Blog Archive Restored

16^th Business-Critical Means Quality-Critical

12^th How Many Lightbulbs Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb?

12^th Reused Code Is Less Likely To Need To Change

9^th What Makes Abstractions Less Likely To Change?

5^th We All Need A Bit Of Anarchy

4^th Test-driven Kitchen Design

2^nd Package Afferent Couplings & Normalised Distance from Main Sequence - Simulation #2

1^st Change Propagation Simulation

September 2007

27^th icareaboutsoftware.org - Be Part of the First 100

25^th I'm a Born-Again Architect

24^th XPDay 2007

21^st First Post-Agile Job Requirement

21^st Getting The Most Test Coverage With The Least Test Code

17^th Architect as Tester - using xUnit to Test Design Quality

13^th Reused Abstractions & Probability of Change

13^th More Money Than Sense

12^th Change Propagation Probability Metric

11^th Dependency Management - A Thought Experiment

10^th A Great Idea

9^th Shameless Plug

7^th How To Do 2-Tier Client/Server Using NHibernate

6^th Singletons Done Safely

6^th Agile Practitioner's Forum - Thank You

5^th The Surest Way To Fail

4^th Cost of Change Curve Is Really A Spectrum?

3^rd 10 Software Development No-Brainers

August 2007

23^rd More People Who Care About Software

23^rd Agile 2007 - Fun With Statistics

22^nd Towards A Unified Model of Dependency Management

20^th Agile Testing Webinar

20^th Agile Architects, Agile 2007 and Post-Agile Credentials

6^th Feedback-driven Development

3^rd Is "Productivity" Incompatible With Innovation?

1^st Economical, Iterative & Feedback-driven Software Development

July 2007

31^st "Ideal Engineering Day" - Surely an Oxymoron?

30^th Who Cares About Software?

30^th Original Sin - Hiring The Wrong People

27^th Guillaume Bertrand's Refactored Refactorbot

27^th icareaboutsoftware.org

27^th My Three Top Project Requirements

26^th Your Dream Job

26^th Innovation Is Not "Work"

26^th Not Underwater - But Thanks For Asking

20^th Refactorbot Discovers Better Solution

19^th OO Design Challenge - Worked Solution

18^th Open Source Metrics Database Reveals Code Growth Curve

17^th I Care About Software

16^th Hiring - Wait For "Mr Right" Or Compromise?

13^th The Agile Architect

11^th Galaxy Zoo

11^th UI Design Happens AFTER You've Understood The Logic

10^th Refactoring Is Not An Optional Extra

9^th Client Seeks Design Authority

9^th OO Design Challenge

1^st "Too Much Testing". Grrr!

June 2007

29^th Agile In St. Petersburg

29^th Gambling On Outsourcing - Metrics Can Help

27^th Undesigning

22^nd Where Are They Now?

22^nd Code Ageing - An Open Experiment

21^st Reused Abstractions & NDepend

21^st Agile Practitioners Forum - Thank You

20^th Meetings Make You Stupid

19^th Time To Move On?

18^th Brownfield or Greenfield? - A Proposed Formula

14^th Post-Agile Manifesto

14^th Offshoring Joke

14^th Social Cohesion in the Agile Alliance

12^th Don't Waste Time Agonising Over Decisions

11^th Microsoft vs TestDriven.NET - The Saga Continues

10^th Slug Fulfillment

6^th Delivering On Time != Project Success

2^nd Exploratory Testing Explained

1^st Should We Expose IT Follies?

May 2007

31^st Take Your Time If You Want To Go Faster

29^th Is The Agile Community A Clique?

29^th Governance - Build On Existing Code or Start Afresh?

22^nd Talking Of Quality...

22^nd How Buggy Is My Code?

15^th Podcast #2 - Interview with Ivar Jacobson

14^th Agile Practitioners Forum

12^th What Is Developer Testing?

10^th Update On Book Topic Poll

9^th Post-Agilism Explained (Pretentiously)

8^th What Book Should I Write?

4^th We Can Always Do Better

3^rd Usability Gaff

1^st "Balanced Anarchy" & Web 2.0

April 2007

30^th Temple Of The Sun (Microsystems)

29^th Mouse Brain Simulation Breakthrough

27^th AJAX Tool Triggers 2-tier Flashback

24^th "Cutting Edge" Is So Last Year

23^rd "Good Enough" Really Means "Almost Perfect"

20^th Metrics Tool Highlights Code Aging

17^th Agile Design Course

17^th Podcast Technical Questions Answered

16^th Pilot Podcast - Agile Testing

13^th Google Maps - Directions From New York to London

13^th Battleship Game Mirrors Innovation Strategies

12^th Can Citizendium Succeed?

11^th Even Waterfall Teams Do "Agile"

11^th Scientists Expose 'Multitaskers'

10^th "Universal Markup Language"

10^th The Podcast IS Coming!

7^th Software Development Doesn't Scale

6^th Microsoft Word Creator Headed for Space Station

5^th Growth Curve Applies To "Living" Code

5^th Lie Detectors Can Lie

4^th A Good Point Badly Made

4^th UML Associations Demystified (Maybe)

3^rd EMI To Unlock iTunes Downloads

2^nd Don't Be In Such A Hurry

1^st Agile Film Buzz At SPA 2007

March 2007

27^th Death Threats Rattle Tech Blogger

27^th Agile Alliance on Certification

22^nd Successful Applications Had Better Be Good Enough

21^st Process Voodoo - Write It Down and They Will Do It

21^st Sessions I'm Sadly Missing At SPA 2007

20^th Maintenance Turns Back The Clock

18^th Robert Martin on Agile Design

16^th Red Nose Day

15^th Agile House Building

15^th Flawed Innovation Advice

14^th Open Application Lifecycle Mangement - The Journey Begins

9^th Zachman Framework Has Military Origin

9^th 10 Common Use Case Pitfalls

8^th Designs End Up Messy With Slob Coders

8^th Pet Pics Block SPAM-bots

7^th OO Metrics - Measuring Package Cohesion

7^th Code Generation 2007

6^th Visual Technique for Prioritising Plans

February 2007

27^th Bad Use Case Advice

26^th Professionals Don't Just Say "Yes"

23^rd Teaching Robots Tests Our Real Understanding

21^st How To Win Design Arguments

21^st Software Aging & Portfolio Management

20^th ID Card Feature Creep Has Already Started

18^th Bad Technical Support from Virgin Media

18^th Cut Gun Crime - Make Carrying Guns Uncool

16^th A Short Story About Goals

15^th Milestone Misunderstanding

15^th Podcasts

15^th Software Process Engineering - Shampoo For Men?

14^th Inescapable Fact #1 - Code Does Not Write Itself

14^th Clickety Clack - The Sound of Nothing Happening

12^th Computing in 2047

9^th Behaviour-driven Development - Wheel-driven Reinvention?

5^th Mac Attacked

2^nd Now That's What I Call A Party!

1^st More 'No Design' Bulls**t

1^st It Pays To Wait

January 2007

31^st Cathedrals & Architects

31^st UML - Does It Make Problems Easier To Spot?

31^st Metrics Speak - So Be Careful What You Wish For

30^th Pinko Commie Liberals

25^th How IT Recruitment Works

25^th Recognising Agility

25^th Milestones & Objectivity

24^th Flip For It

24^th It's Snow Joke

23^rd Architecture vs. Architects

21^st Architects!

19^th Productivity Problem

19^th Continuous Refactoring Boosts Productivity

17^th Time

16^th Authoring Tools for Process Guidance

10^th Keep Your Domain Model Clean

8^th Post-Agilism - Beyond Usability

3^rd Do I Practice What I Preach?

December 2006

31^st UML + Mind Map = Added Value?

29^th Use Cases Tutorial Corrections

28^th Enemy Of Bureaucracy

21^st OOA/D (not necessarily) using UML

21^st XML Files - No Free Lunch

21^st Object-Relational Test Coverage - No Free Lunch

19^th Corridors Of Power(walking)

18^th MODELS 2007

18^th Agilian 1.0 for Agile Modelers

18^th Documentation Tips

17^th 'Weak' Leadership Takes Real Guts

14^th "On Average..."

13^th Project Charters - Chicken & Egg.

13^th Baby. Bathwater. Etc.

13^th Low-Hanging Fruit Blind Spot

12^th Falling Between the Cracks

11^th Unambiguous Specification?

8^th Right-Brainer

November 2006

30^th Code Tamagotchi

30^th Work! (What Is It Good For?)

30^th Agile Narratives

30^th Dilbert & Six Sigma

30^th Code Aging & The Grand Canyon Effect

24^th La La La. I'm Not Listening.

22^nd Test-driven Development - A Programmer's Prerogative?

22^nd UML Pantomime - Lost In Translation?

17^th Multitasking 'Makes You Stupid'

17^th The Myth Of 'No Design'

14^th Free UML for .NET & Java Downloads

14^th Code Tremors - Examples

9^th Code Tremors

9^th Three Not-Blind-Any-More Mice

8^th Kent Beck - Mapping XP

8^th Agile Governance at XTC - Quick Thanks

6^th Interface Segregation Question

3^rd Blair "Born Again" On Science

2^nd Murder Your Darlings

2^nd Multitaskers!

1^st Embrace Reality

October 2006

31^st Software That Actually Works

27^th Radio Quality

26^th Modeling Unit Tests in UML

26^th Evolutionary Re-Engineering

25^th Strict vs. Pseudo-Evolutionary Design

24^th Exploratory Testing - Not Just A Reason To Have Testers

23^rd Agile Governance - Nov 7th, London

22^nd Agile Backlash Article

20^th Daily Stand-ups & Continuous Integration

19^th Whose Design Is It Anyway?

18^th Unspoken Rules & Delusional Plans

18^th Consensus Management - Why It Doesn't Scale

17^th Antony Gorman's WOPR

14^th Exploratory Testing & Reverse Engineering

14^th Use Cases - An Introduction

12^th Reality Org Chart

12^th Use Cases & Scenarios

11^th Beware Of UI Prototypes

10^th Impossible Models

10^th Documentation As A Side-Effect of Design

7^th Complete UML for Java Course Available

7^th Where 2.0, Guv?

6^th Tom Gilb's 3 Golden Rules

6^th In The Garden. Eating Worms.

3^rd Don't Sweat The Small Stuff

2^nd The Essence of Requirements Analysis

1^st Free UML for .NET Download Available

September 2006

29^th Age Before Beauty?

28^th Madness

28^th Tom DeMarco On The 3 Golden Rules

27^th Tactile Modeling

27^th Steve McConnell On The 3 Golden Rules

26^th Shut Up And Show Us Some UML

25^th The Waterfall Delusion

22^nd Product Management Game

21^st Nonlinear Product Management

21^st Why Do Defects Cluster?

20^th Strategy & Traction

19^th Worth Building? Worth testing!

19^th Predictability - Red Herring?

19^th Speaking My Language

16^th Agile Governance - Sept 14th

16^th Backing The Winner?

15^th Good Governance

14^th Agile Governance Guide - Draft

13^th New Agile Forum

6^th Agile Touring

2^nd From The Train

August 2006

29^th Comparing Project Plans

27^th What Is Leadership?

26^th Agile Governance - August 24th Feedback

25^th Good vs. Bad Variation - How Can We Know?

25^th Good vs Bad Project Plans

22^nd Code Aging & Stool Analysis

22^nd Another Day, Another Public Sector IT Fiasco

21^st Quality Falsehoods

19^th 22% In Favour of Excessive iPod Factory Hours

18^th Terror Suspects - Place Your Bets

17^th Factors in Code Aging

16^th Value Statements

15^th Code Half-Life

14^th Proof God Exists

12^th miniSPA Report & Pictures

4^th Nonlinear Dieting

July 2006

31^st Software Visualisation

28^th OOD Master Class - Feedback from July 27th

28^th Agile Leadership & Other Nonsense

23^rd Post-Agilism Draft Article

23^rd Outdated Work Ethic

22^nd OO Master Class - New Places Available

21^st Teamwork & Groupthink

21^st Blowing Hot Air

19^th Chicken. Egg. Architecture. Code.

17^th Homeostatis & Process Improvement

17^th C# Generics & UML

14^th Kent Beck's 3 Golden Values

14^th miniSPA - London August 11th

14^th Scott Ambler's 3 Golden Rules

14^th 5 Places Where You Won't Find The Answer

14^th Promote & Die

13^th Three Golden Rules

13^th Bug Fixes Stay Fixed

12^th 5 Reasons Why I Won't Be Using Team System

12^th Plan-driven Reuse (& Other Costly Mistakes)

11^th Agile Metrics - More Thoughts

11^th "nice 1000000 photo sex"

10^th Feel The (Crash And) Burn

10^th Never Mind The Quality. Feel The Entropy.

8^th Agile Metrics Design - July 6th Feedback

4^th Overheard In A Software Company

2^nd Post-Agilism

2^nd UML for Managers - June 29th Feedback

1^st Capability In Pictures

1^st Productivity and MOVE

June 2006

30^th MOVE!

28^th Winter e-Cademy Suggestions

26^th Waiter, There's A Bug In My Soup

24^th Early Zappa on youtube.com

22^nd What's In A Name?

21^st Bug-free Part II - Building The Right Thing

17^th Agile Metrics Design at Agile 2006

17^th Agile Metrics Design - Feedback from June 15th

15^th Ruby On Rails Is The New SmallTalk

15^th New Refuctoring - Reflectoring

15^th The Reused Abstractions Principle

11^th Do Agile Methods Scale Up?

10^th OOD Master Class - Feedback From June 8th

4^th Don't Eat The Yellow Snow

May 2006

30^th Software Pastel Improvement?

29^th The Da Vinci Java Code

28^th Bug-Free Part I - Building It Right

26^th Disco Star Wars & Agile SOA

23^rd Agile Enterprise Architecture

22^nd Spike Milligan on Documentation

22^nd What Is Capability?

22^nd Complex Capability

19^th Been There. Done That. Got Eaten Alive.

11^th What Is Agile Governance?

7^th Nonlinear Management - Games & Strategies

6^th Updated OO Design Principles Presentation

5^th Summer e-cademy

4^th Testers & The Bottom Line

April 2006

29^th Project Voodoo

29^th Complexity Heads vs. Clockwork Heads

19^th Beware! Stabilizers

3^rd Cat Poetry & Architecture

2^nd Mortgage-driven Development

1^st Why Did I Quit Architecture?

March 2006

30^th Process Voodoo

25^th We Asked 100 Liars...

24^th Just Following Orders

23^rd The Next Train Arriving At Platform 3

18^th Lighting Fires: The Science Of Megatrends

16^th How do you fit a project manager into a cola bottle?

16^th Labour Party Donors - Fun With Statistics

15^th 10 Reasons Why Programming Is Like Drinking

15^th Why Pay $$$Thousands?

13^th Evolutionary Design Presentation

10^th More Atrocious Customer Service

8^th The Selfish Class

4^th Waterfall Is BAD

2^nd Evolution - The Secret Of Good Service

February 2006

25^th I Am To Blame

24^th Innovation & The Problem Tree

23^rd AJAX - Don't Mention The Elephant !

23^rd Motivational Speaker

20^th Attack Of The Middlemen

19^th Sleep On It

17^th Political Incorrectness

16^th Launch of University Program

15^th Shut Up And Play Your Guitar

13^th Mr Stupid

13^th Any Old Iron?

9^th Business Actors & System Actors

9^th Are You An Entrepreneur?

8^th Rain Dances & Placebos

7^th Agile Coaching

7^th So You Want A Java Architect, Then?

5^th CHAOS Revisited

4^th BT Exact Agile PR

2^nd Hottest Skills for 2006

1^st JOB: C# Developers, London - contract

1^st JOB: Business Analyst, London - contract

January 2006

30^th Spot The UML Bluffer

30^th UML Puzzles Part II

27^th Conference for Real Programmers

24^th Management Cults & Memetic Viruses

20^th So That's Cleared That Up, Then

18^th Say What You See

17^th Solution Space & Evolutionary Design

16^th Emergent Enterprise Architecture

16^th Unknowing The Unknowable

16^th Are We There Yet?

15^th UML Puzzles - Part I

14^th Money Can't Buy You Luck

14^th Sticking To Our Guns

13^th Holism vs. Reductionism

13^th Million Dollar Meme

12^th Fad Diets & Old Wives Tales

12^th Intelligent Designer Design

11^th Climbing Mount Improbable

8^th Tool Envy

7^th Agile SPI Guinea Pigs

5^th 2006 Training Portfolio

3^rd Adaptive Tension & Memetic Engineering

2^nd Pyramid Meme

2^nd Lean Or Meme?

1^st Engage Me

1^st Reductionism vs. Complexity

1^st Organisational Memetics

December 2005

30^th Evolution vs. Eureka Moments

29^th What Is "Agile"?

28^th Six Sigma - It's Not Just Me, Then

22^nd See Six Sigma & Die

22^nd For The Last Time - Waterfall Doesn't Work !

20^th Throw The Dice

19^th Statistical Gravity

10^th Equilibrium & Organisational Death

9^th Agile Testing - Where's My Feedback, Dude?

7^th Q. When Is A Service Not A Service?

6^th Agile Maintenance

4^th It's The People, Stupid!

2^nd Oily Rags

1^st OO Design Principles Exercises

November 2005

30^th The Metrics Design Process

30^th XPDay Update

25^th XPDay 5 - Sneak Preview

25^th Little Green Hackers?

23^rd Adaptive Tension & Organisational Dysfunction

22^nd Write The Code To Pass The Test !!!

22^nd Martin Fowler - "Cannot Measure Productivity"

22^nd Agile Scheduling & Estimating

22^nd XPDay 5 - London, Nov 28th-29th

6^th Vote For Your Favourite

1^st Evolution & Adaptive Tension

October 2005

21^st Software Process Improvement Process Improvement!

10^th UML for .NET - 65% Discount for October!

September 2005

14^th Agile Business Conference 2005

5^th Apologies to Rob James

August 2005

14^th Are We There Yet?

6^th Agile Summer School

6^th miniSPA 2005 Report

July 2005

27^th More On Metrics

19^th Better? Faster? Cheaper? - London, August 25th

12^th How Agile Are We?

12^th Software Development Meta-Model

June 2005

24^th Achieving Streamlined Synergy By Reusing Agile Leveraging

21^st OCL Tools For Learning

10^th Software Development & The Economy

8^th The Object Oriented Analysis & Design Process - Part I

5^th Agile Software Process Improvement III

3^rd Finding The Optimum Team Size

2^nd XP 2005

May 2005

29^th Agile Software Process Improvement II

21^st Agile Software Process Improvement

2^nd Agile Planning - Part III

1^st Agile Planning - Part II

April 2005

30^th Agile Planning - Part I

24^th Object-Relational Mapping Patterns

23^rd Test-driven Development & Off-shoring

23^rd Process != UML != Documentation

20^th Book Review - Head First Design Patterns

19^th OCL Evaluator

16^th Software Process Improvement - Refactoring The Way We Work

15^th Programming Language Comparisons

15^th UML for Managers Ch 5 - Latest

14^th Constructors & Correctness

13^th UML for .NET - Price Offer Ends Soon

12^th Are you Agile? Where's your customer, then?

11^th UML for Managers Chapter 5 Update

11^th OCL Collections and UML Associations

10^th Software Factories

10^th Welcome to the parlezuml.com blog