Moved to new server

I moved odd-e.com and my blog to a new server. The old user names should still be working, but please let me know if you experience any problems. Bas (in San Francisco right now)

Scaling Agile

Finally. Today I ran to the Fedex to grab my package from them. I just came back to Singapore and hadn't been here for 3 weeks. Last time, they destroyed my package. Didn't want that to happen this time because... Its my own book! Finally the

Are you test-driving your code?

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Presentation at the Scan-Agile conference

Last week, I was at the Scan-Agile conference in Helsinki. I did a completely new presentation which I called "Journey through product development literature". It was a new style of presentation that only consisted of quotes from different books. I had a lot of fun making and doing

Function pointer link stubs

Last week been test-driving some C code again and found that not much people are familiar with the "function pointer link stub". This is an excellent technique in C to dynamically replace library calls without adjusting the library. Imagine, you are working on some embedded software. You will

Agile Portfolio Management

Last week, I finally received the new "Agile Portfolio Management" book, a book I was looking forward to reading. Organizational issues related to Agile are important since most people assume Agile development does not affect organizational issues, but nothing could be further from the truth. When adopting agile

Agile 2008 in Toronto

This week... I'm jetlagged. Because, last week I was in Toronto (which is 12h timezone difference from where I live) and joining the Agile2008 conference. It was an excellent conference. I had a lot of fun and it was so great meeting people whom I hadn't

New book -> Feature Teams

At the moment, most of my time is spend writing on the new book which I'm writing with Craig Larman. Writing is awfully hard, but I'm learning and Craig is helping me a lot fixing my poor writing skills. Recently we pre-published one of the chapters

Emergent Design

I just finished the fairly new book from Scott Bain called "Emergent Design". The book was good and I was disappointed. I expected much more, based on the title, but the book basically was just a summary of good agile practices. I did write a fairly large Amazon

Stuff in Singapore

Hmm.. I had posted a pretty large entry 2 weeks ago, but something went wrong and it never got posted. Too bad. Anyways, it was a book recommendation about "Project Managers Bridge to Agility" which, even though there is all this "agile project manager" talk, still

The dark side of C++

Mike Feathers pointed me to this excellent FQA about C++: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ I especially like the C/C++ things in there. Bumped my head to most of these in the past :)

More Scrum in Japan

Earlier this week I was in Tokyo again. Tokyo is a city I always like visiting. Good food, big and always interesting new things for a non-Japanese to discover. One of the interesting bits this time was the line in front of the Doughnut store near ShinJuKu. When I lived

Lean Product and Process Development Exchange - Denver

About 2 weeks ago I was in Denver on the Lean Product and Process Development Exchange. This was a small conference which focused on lean product development (not just SW). I was invited by Marry Poppendieck to come and speak on a panel she was organizing together with Peter (Xerox)

CppUTest TestPlugin changes

I've recently made some very kewl CppUTest changes (at least, I think they are nice). CppUTest has a TestPlugin design. This means that you can write "Plugins" and add them in your main method. The Plugins is called before every setup and after ever teardown (automatically)

Traveling and moving

Phew. It's been a while since I wrote something here. Life has been insane for me. This year, I've been traveling probably around 80% of my time. It feels like I've been more in planes than out of planes. I was in Korea, India

Function to Function Pointer refactoring

Last week I had some time to work on some C legacy code again and write some unit tests. I've been playing with a refactoring that I've used in the past and now use it all the time when working in C. The refactoring is called