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Homer on Pairing

noreply@blogger.com (Alexis La Joie) — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:15:00 +0000

(From the Iliad, Diomed in giving his counsel on how the Achaeans might capture some intelligence on the Trojan plans): "When two men are together, one of them may see some opportunity which the...

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Prezi on Writing Communicative Tests using BDD, Cucumber and Rails

noreply@blogger.com (Alexis La Joie) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:55:00 +0000

.prezi-player { width: 550px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; } Writing Communicative Tests with BDD, Cucumber & Rails on Prezi

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When the Cucumber is mightier than the Pen - Fixing Rails 3 in Action

noreply@blogger.com (Alexis La Joie) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:10:00 +0000

Aslak Hellesoy and the good people behind Cucumber have realized there was a problem in the Cucumber community. People were using web_steps to build, rather than just as a set of examples. So, the...

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Eat your meat AND your vegetables!

noreply@blogger.com (Alexis La Joie) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:48:00 +0000

No matter what dietary fads are upon us, most of us realize that we need to eat a balanced diet.* Why is it in the software industry that I so often see teams binging on just one thing when it comes...

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Shortcuts don't always get you where you set out for

noreply@blogger.com (Alexis La Joie) — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:46:00 +0000

I have lived in a lot of places over the years. I have learned with each new place to get out and drive (or better - bike or walk) to start to get a feel for the place. Assess the lay of the land if...

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Presenting on Agility in Second Life!

noreply@blogger.com (Alexis La Joie) — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:05:00 +0000

On Wed April 20th at 7pm PDT, I will be presenting in Second Life. The topic is "Developing Healthy Teams through Agility". Second Life is a thriving Virtual Reality community on the internet....

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Prezi of a collaborative presentation on Virtue and Agility Patterns

noreply@blogger.com (Alexis La Joie) — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:00:00 +0000

I gave a dynamic, collaborative presentation on Virtue and Agility Patterns. Rather than using a slide based presentation, I used a tablet to mark up documents on the screen. This gave more of a...

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The Grammar of Agile Software Development

noreply@blogger.com (Alexis La Joie) — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:30:00 +0000

This is in response to David Hussman's Tweet : "+5 RT @jbrains: "Please please stop using 'agile' as a noun" - @pragdave (YES!!!!) #magicruby Agile: (adjective) Agilely: (adverb) Agility:...

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Aristotelian Software Development = Agile Software Development?

noreply@blogger.com (Alexis La Joie) — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:08:00 +0000

I admit it. I am an Aristotelian. What I mean by that is that of the three predominant ethical theories, deontology, utilitarianism and virtue oriented ethics, the latter makes the most sense to me....

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What makes Agile work

noreply@blogger.com (Alexis La Joie) — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:05:00 +0000

In my career, I have seen team after team struggle to 'succeed' at implementing Agile. I asked a recent Product Owner who felt that the team had been partially successful, but still had a way to go,...

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