How NOT to write Code Examples

When working on one of my pet projects, I need to extend the visual studio IDE. Before starting out I wanted to get a better understanding of the IDE extensibility model. Therefore I allocated  some time to do a spike in order to get a feeling of the basic capabilities and the effort that will be involved. Usually when doing spikes I  like to dirty my hands as soon as possible, so I thought that best way would be to create my own sample add-in and play with it. So the first step of business was to create my own add-in project, that was fairly easy to accomplish since there's a build in wizard for creating an add-in project (it hides under other project types-> extensibility: The next step for me was to try an add a custom...

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Posted in: Add-in,bugs,Documentation,IDE

The future of scrum

Lately I've heard rumors about SCRUM starting to define the developer role inside the scrum team. Yesterday in the 3rd Israeli scrum forum, those rumors were confirmed when Danko announced that the scrum alliance is contemplating adding a Scrum Developer certification course. When I asked for details, he said that its just the beginning, but the Scrum Alliance is now starting to discuss the various engineering practices and decide which of those to adopt as inherent parts of SCRUM. Its about time. A good Development process One of the things that always bothered me about SCRUM is the idea that one can define a DEVELOPMENT process without actually going into how software is developed. This led me to describe SCRUM as a management process which is very suitable for managing software development...

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Posted in: Engineering Practices,Scrum,XP