Practising XP (Extreme Programming)

Remote Working - Iteration Planning

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:55:14 GMT

In this episode, we talk to Indushree, Surendra & Pramida about Iteration Planning in a radically remote setup

Remote Working - Kickoffs And Volleyballs

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:30:48 GMT

In this episode, we talk to Sumeet, Richa, Pramida and Nalini about the practice of Story Kickoffs and Volleyballs

Remote Working - Pairing

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:26:02 GMT

In this episode, we talk to Meenakshi, Sunit and Swapnil about how remote work is affecting / enhancing their experience in day to day pair programming

Remote Working - Standups

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 14:09:37 GMT

In this episode, we talk to Quazi, Nazneen, Pratima, Sumeet and Dipsi on the challenges and tips for effective remote standups

Remote Working - Retrospectives

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:37:18 GMT

In this episode Chirag and I talk to Sumeet, Vishal, Pramida and Aditya about their experiences in running remote retrospectives and some tips for facilitators

Remote Work - Initial Reflections

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 05:11:55 GMT

We are starting a parallel series to discuss some aspects of Remote Work that we have been thrown into in the past few weeks

Practising XP #69 : Self Signups - Antipatterns

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 03:30:33 GMT

In this episode, we discuss a few anti-patterns that will dilute or diminish the benefits that you would get from the practice of self signups.

Practising XP #68 : Self Signups - Benefits

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 03:30:13 GMT

In this episode, we talk about the benefits of using self signups as a way of distributing work amongst the team.

Practising XP #67 : Self Signups - What is Self Signup

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 03:42:54 GMT

In this episode we describe the practice of self signups

Practising XP #66 : Self Signups - Problems with Task Assignment

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 03:40:52 GMT

In this new series on Self Signups, we discuss the benefits of using this practice where team members choose the work that they want to do rather than being assigned tasks by a manager / team lead. This episode talks about the problems with a conventional task assignment approach

Practising XP #65 : Refactoring - Prioritization and Estimation

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 07:00:50 GMT

In this episode we touch upon how to account for refactoring in your development plan and how to have meaningful conversations with client stakeholders about prioritizing this important activity

Practising XP #64 : Refactoring - the 7 commandments

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 03:00:06 GMT

The messenger from the Gods of Software development has come bearing 7 commandments of refactoring.

Practising XP #63 : Refactoring - Antipatterns

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 03:00:03 GMT

In this episode, we talk about how NOT to refactor

Practising XP #62 : Refactoring - What it is not

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 03:00:03 GMT

Here we delve a little deeper into various things that are misinterpreted as refactoring

Practising XP #61 : Refactoring - When and How

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 03:00:03 GMT

Here we talk about when and how to refactor.

Practising XP #60 : Refactoring - What and Why

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 03:00:03 GMT

In this episode, we introduce the widely misunderstood term "Refactoring"

Practising XP #59 : What is TDD

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 05:35:39 GMT

In this episode we attempt to define what TDD. This should ideally be heard before the TDD vs Unit testing episode.

Practising XP #58 : TDD - Benefits - Joy

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 30 Nov 2019 04:00:03 GMT

Today we talk about how TDD can make software development joyful

Practising XP #57 : TDD - Benefits - Developer Productivity

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 04:00:03 GMT

Today we discuss how TDD makes you more productive as a developer

Practising XP #56 : TDD - Benefits - Better Design

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 04:00:03 GMT

Today we discuss how TDD enables better design.

Practising XP #55 : TDD - TDD vs Unit testing

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 04:00:04 GMT

Today we talk about the difference between TDD and Unit Testing and why TDD is a preferable way to write code.

Practising XP #54 : TDD - When to write unit tests

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 04:00:02 GMT

Today we talk about when should you write those awesome unit tests

Practising XP #53 : TDD - Types of tests

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 04:00:02 GMT

Today we talk about the different types of automated tests

Practising XP #52 : TDD - Need for Automation

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 04:54:36 GMT

In this series we talk about Test Driven Development. We begin with today's episode by talking about the need for automated tests.

Practising XP #48 : Pair Rotation - When to switch

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 03:00:04 GMT

In this episode Chirag and Akshay discuss some patterns of when to switch pairs

Practising XP #51 : Pair Rotation - Pitfalls

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 17:50:35 GMT

In this episode Chirag and Akshay discuss some pitfalls to keep in mind when switching pairs

Practising XP #50 : Pair Rotation - Benefits

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 17:50:30 GMT

In this episode Chirag and Akshay discuss the benefits of pair rotation

Practising XP #49 : Pair Rotation - Who should pair

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 17:50:22 GMT

In this episode Chirag and Akshay discuss some patterns of who should pair

Practising XP #47 : Pair Programming - Antipatterns

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 22 Jun 2019 18:10:34 GMT

Chirag and Akshay discuss the anti patterns of pair programming

Practising XP #46 : Benefits of Pair Programming - Teamwork

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 25 May 2019 03:00:07 GMT

Akshay and Chirag talk about the benefits of pair programming for teamwork.

Practising XP #45 : Benefits of Pair Programming - Learning

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 18 May 2019 03:00:09 GMT

Pair programming amplifies the learning on any team and is the most elegant method to onboard new developers.

Practising XP #44 - Benefits of Pairing - Quality

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Tue, 14 May 2019 05:43:26 GMT

In this episode we discuss the benefits of Pair Programming for the internal and external quality of software that we write.

Practising XP #43 : What is pairing and How to do it

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 04 May 2019 13:50:05 GMT

Before we look at more benefits, let's discuss what pairing is and some patterns that help make it effective

Practising XP #42 : Benefits of Pairing - Productivity

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 03:48:51 GMT

"Why am I paying twice the money?" is a question often asked by stakeholders when they think of pairing. In this episode Chirag and Akshay talk about how pairing benefits productivity in various ways with direct benefits to your stakeholders!

Practising XP #41 : Problems with working alone - Teamwork

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 04:00:04 GMT

In this episode we discuss how working alone hampers effective teamwork.

Practising XP #40 : Problems with working alone - Learning

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 05:34:58 GMT

In this episode we discuss how working alone hampers the speed at which developers learn from each other in turn affecting the growth of the team adversely.

Practising XP #39 : Problems with working alone - Quality

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 08:40:15 GMT

In this episode, Chirag and Akshay discuss hoe working alone might affect quality

Practising XP #38 : Problems with working alone - Productivity

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 04:27:15 GMT

We are starting a new series on Pair Programming where we will explore the problems with working alone and how pair programming can help solve many of these issues. In this episode we talk about how working alone hampers productivity.

Practising XP #37 : Estimation Antipatterns - Traps to watch out for

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 13:44:27 GMT

In the last episode of this series, we discuss a few common traps to watch out for when working with story point estimates.

Practising XP #36 : Estimation Antipatterns - Losing relativity in the backlog

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 04:52:23 GMT

When teams get better (start performing) this should reflect in their velocity. But more often than not, teams fall prey to a trap. In this episode, Chirag and Akshay talk about how to avoid this.

Practising XP #35 : Estimation Antipatterns - Comparing Teams

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 04:59:41 GMT

In this episode, we discuss a common tendency of managers comparing different teams based on velocity.

Practising XP #34 - Estimation Antipatterns - Using Points as Targets

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 07:33:01 GMT

In this episode Chirag and Akshay talk about an antipattern of using story points as a way of estimation. Quite often teams start using the points themselves as targets and start measuring success by completing story points.

Practising XP #33 - How story points can make life better

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 03:00:05 GMT

This is the final episode in our series on estimation. In this episode, Chirag and Akshay talk circle back to the problems that they enumerated with time based estimates and see if a story points approach can solve those problems. We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions. Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp Music by Lee Rosevere

Practising XP #32 : The XP Game

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 03:00:05 GMT

This is episode 6 in our series on estimation. In this episode, Chirag and Akshay discuss the XP game - the XP approach to planning. We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions. Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp

Practising XP #31 : Answering the question "How fast can we go?"

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 03:00:05 GMT

This is episode 5 in our series on estimation. In this episode, Chirag and Akshay talk about how to answer the second important question "How fast can we go" We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions. Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp

Practicing XP #30 : Answering the "how big" question

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 03:00:03 GMT

This is episode 4 in our series on estimation. In this episode, Chirag and Akshay talk about separating the two questions "How big" and "How fast" and only answering the question "How big" really well. We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions. Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp

Practising XP #29 : Time based estimates are difficult to track

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 03:00:05 GMT

This is episode 3 of our series on estimation. In this episode, Chirag and Akshay discuss how its difficult even for project stakeholders to track progress and respond to delays if you are using time based estimates. We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions. Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp Music by Lee Rosevere

Practising XP #28 : Time based estimates create harmful pressure

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 03:00:05 GMT

This is episode 2 of our series on estimation. In this episode, Chirag and Akshay talk about the various kinds of pressure created by time based estimation and its ill effects. We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions. Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp Music by Lee Rosevere

Practising XP #27 : Why are your time based estimates always wrong?

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 03:00:15 GMT

This is episode 1 of our estimation series. In this episode, Akshay & Chirag argue that any time based estimates that you ever give will be wrong. We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions. Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp Music by Lee Rosevere

Practising XP #26 : Evolutionary Code Design

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 08:18:12 GMT

Chirag and Akshay talk to Vidhi, Tejashree, Anil and Rahul about what incremental / evolutionary design is and what it means in terms of mindset and practices We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions. Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp

Practising XP #25 : ROI on automated testing

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Mon, 21 May 2018 13:26:32 GMT

We talk to Ankit, Ishan, Ayush and Shilpa about the ROI on automated functional testing and the test pyramid in general. We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions. Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp

Practising XP #24 : Re-Estimation

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Fri, 04 May 2018 19:16:09 GMT

Chirag and Akshay talk to Amit, Aniruddha and Gayathri on re-estimation and whether to bother with it or not.

Practising XP #23 : Estimation

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 21 Apr 2018 07:15:19 GMT

Chirag and Akshay talk to Priyanka and Shirish about story point estimation v/s time based estimation. We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions. Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp

Practising XP #22 : No Estimates

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:24:47 GMT

To estimate or not... that is the question! Chirag and Akshay talk to Janvi, Pallavi, Leighton and Digvijay about their current practices and the positive effects of estimation We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions. Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp

Practising XP #21 : Standups - Patterns and Antipatterns

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 14:51:10 GMT

Chirag and Akshay talk to Sohani, Rima, Neelaja and Meenakshi about standups. We will explore patterns that work for their teams and some that don't... We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions. Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp

Practising XP #20 : On not pairing

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 07:31:52 GMT

We have a few colleagues who have been experimenting with not pairing for the past few weeks. Chirag and Akshay talk to them to see what their experience has been like. We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions. Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp

Practising XP #19 : Spillover Stories - Part 2

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 07:06:06 GMT

We have Swapnil, Vardhan, Janvi and Manjari with us to discuss spillovers, something that Vardhan and Swapnil have worked hard to eradicate from their teams. Is that a good thing? In what environments does it work and where does it not? Let's explore the topic a bit shall we? We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions. Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp

Practising XP #18 : Don't cry over spillover stories - Q&A

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 10:56:00 GMT

A team is puzzled about how to solve the problem of spill-over stories. We explore the issue together with them. We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions. Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp

Practising XP #17 : Dining Tables - Role play and wrap up

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 13:11:07 GMT

We are in Bangalore and got a chance to talk to some of our colleagues about sitting in a open space on a dining table. We have covered dining tables before but this time Chirag plays the role of a client who is used to working in cubicles while the TW team tries to convince him to take the cubicles down. We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions. Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp

Practising XP #16 : Continuous Integration and Small Frequent Check-ins

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 14:42:11 GMT

Chirag and Akshay, along with a few colleagues discuss the practice of frequent, small check-ins and the implications on build time and stories. We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions. Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp

Practising XP #15 : Self Signups - Role Play and Discussion

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 19:26:07 GMT

Chirag and I have guests in the studio. We are going to stage a role play discussion and a wrap up and talk about the merits of self sign-ups, some anti patterns as well as situations where self-signups might not be the right choice. We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions. Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp

Practising XP #14 : Onshore decides Offshore follows

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:22:41 GMT

In this episode Chirag and Akshay talk about an anti-pattern where the onshore team always decides and expects the offshore team to follow. We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions. Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp

Practising XP #13 : One Feature Multiple Teams

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 09:18:37 GMT

In this episode Chirag and Akshay discuss the fallacies of splitting a feature across multiple teams although it might look like the "right" thing to do on the face of it.

Practising XP #12 - Dev Teams, QA Teams ?

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 18:29:24 GMT

In this episode Akshay and Chirag discuss the pitfalls of boundaries between developers and QAs and broadly between any roles in an XP team.

Practising XP #11 : Test Automation

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 22:05:36 GMT

Chirag and Akshay discuss how automation yields benefits only if done right, and the right way to do it.

Practising XP - #10 Clean Code

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 15:03:05 GMT

In this episode Chirag and Akshay discuss how it is essential to follow good engineering practices and focus on writing clean code to be able really embrace change

Practising XP #9 : XP Values - Feedback

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 09:03:56 GMT

Akshay and Chirag talk about the critical XP value - Feedback

Practising XP #8 : XP Values - Communication

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:33:57 GMT

In this episode, Chirag and Akshay talk about Communication, one of the primary values of a good XP team. OR any good team for that matter. (Music by Lee Rosevere http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Music_For_Podcasts)

Practising XP #7 : Economics Of Software Development

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 13:20:01 GMT

In this episode, Chirag and Akshay discuss the economics of software development. We talk about the time value of money, how it is important to earn money sooner and spend it later and how to do it in context of software development.

Practising XP #6 : Poly-skilled Teams

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 04:30:31 GMT

In this episode, Chirag and Akshay discuss poly-skilling and its benefits to individuals as well as the team.

Practising XP #5 - Pair Programming

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 11:33:37 GMT

Chirag and Akshay discuss the patterns of pair programming and the benefits that pair programming brings. They also touch upon pairing in general.

Practising XP #4 - Sign Ups

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:24:11 GMT

Chirag and Akshay talk about the XP practice of "Sign up" where team members choose what they are going to work on next. They discuss the benefits of the practice as well as some anti-patterns and possible solutions

Practising XP #3 : Dining Tables

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 12:56:22 GMT

Chirag and Akshay discuss the "dining table" seating layout, its advantages as well as some things to consider to counter some of its disadvantages.

Practising XP #2: Why are your standups broken? - Part 2

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:38:32 GMT

Chirag and Akshay have over 20 years of experience in working with agile teams that practice Extreme Programming. In this episode of the Practising XP podcast they continue discussing more standup anti-patterns and possible remedies.

Practising XP #1: Why are your standups broken? - Part 1

admin@practisingxp.com (Chirag Doshi & Akshay Dhavle) — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:14:21 GMT

Chirag and Akshay have over 20 years of experience in working with agile teams that practice Extreme Programming. In the first episode of the Practising XP podcast they talk about standup anti-patterns and possible remedies.