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Infecting a team with Agile: Part 3: Educating Management

By jonezy | Published: November 25, 2009
In part 2 of the series we reviewed some ways to bring an inexperienced development team up to speed on some of the core concepts and fundamentals of agile. This week we will talk about the same topic but with a different target audience. Management. Now a good friend of mine, and colleague that I learned [...]
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Infecting a team with Agile: Part 1 – Preparation

By jonezy | Published: November 6, 2009
One of the core tenants of agile is: “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools” But anyone that has done any work in an agile shop knows that to achieve many of the goals of agile you need to have certain types of tools in place to facilitate the process.  This past week I have been preparing [...]
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Infecting a team with agile

By jonezy | Published: November 4, 2009
Part of what I’m doing at my job is getting the development practices we use internally up to date.  Previous to my current job i worked at a company that went through adopting agile as it’s primary development practice.  The result was a fantastic working environment and that is my goal here, to create a [...]
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xcopy won’t copy .css files

By jonezy | Published: October 20, 2009
I use xcopy as part of a build script to copy a bunch of files and directories from a subversion checkout directory to another directory so that I can zip them and upload them to a server. I have an exclude file that I use to tell xcopy to ignore files like the obj directory and [...]
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If your gonna fuck up, do it early

By jonezy | Published: October 15, 2009
I’ve worked in the online industry for the last 12 years or so, one thing above all else I’ve learned in my time in this industry You are going to fuck it up Now I use the phrase “fuck it up” in place of fail for effect, for impact, ya know if this was a power point [...]
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Weathering the storm

By jonezy | Published: August 11, 2008
One of the common tasks when working in an agile environment is pointing stories, its essential that the team and the product owner get together and decide on how much effort something is going to take. We had a meeting scheduled today at work to do just this, 4 stories that needed pointing so they [...]
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