Funny error message
An error message I just don't want to forget. Today, I got this error message in some code: error: invalid preprocessing directive #eror (do read it carefully)
Bas Vodde
Feature team primer
Feature teams are an important part of scaling Agile and Scrum to large products. Me and Craig have written extensively about feature teams in our two books. Till now, the 'best' description about feature teams was probably the Feature Team chapter of the Scaling Lean & Agile book.
Never to young to learn
A friend of mine, Sami Lilja, send me a photo of his son studying how to scale Agile and Lean development (below). Sami recently started a new company called Kollabora. Hope he has much success with that, perhaps his son will be the youngest scaling agile & lean expert in
Mocking support in CppUTest
I've added mocking support to the CppUTest C/C++ unit testing framework. Id like to clarify why I've added it, why I've added it the way it is and how you can use it. Why mocking? I won't cover why mocking and
Scrum and Culture
Hmm... its been a while since I posted here. I'll try to re-start this a bit. We also moved the blog to the new odd-e server, which clarifies the new look. The location should be the same though. Earlier this year, I was doing a keynote talk at
Calling BS on fractal processes
Yesterday, I was browsing some of the mailing lists and bumped into some posts about "fractal processes." This wasn't the first time I heard about them, people talk about them in the context of Extreme Programming and Scrum and more modern methods such as Kanban all
Birth of Lean -> Book review
I wrote an Amazon review of a new book called "Birth of Lean". You can find the amazon entry here I copied the review on this blog. Think its worth reading for people interested in Lean: -------------------- The Birth of Lean is a collection of six interviews with
Stuck in Code
An interesting post
TDD in C using Prediction
Last weeks I've been working on some legacy code. Most of it has been refactoring, but we rewrote a couple of modules to we test-drove these... of course. The TDD cycle is so slow that it made me realize a technique I'm using... but wasn'
Organizational impediments
Craig and me changed the "top 10 organizational impediments" in an article and published it on ScrumAlliance. We added two points of ourselves. You can find it here.
More CppUTest updates
In Bangalore, on my way back to Singapore. It is another late night flight. I hate them and consider the new Bangalore airports to be perhaps one of the least interesting airports in the world. Still an hour before my flight leave, hope I can stay awake. Last weeks I&
Must-read papers for programmers
Michael Feathers came up with an excellent list of must-read papers from programmers (he is bored, his head it too heavy). You can find it here: http://michaelfeathers.tumblr.com/post/81489281/10-papers-every-programmer-should-read-at-least-twice There were some papers I didn't know, but also some papers I'd think