Why should you become Agile

One word: I believe that a developer work should be one filled with the joy of creation. When I started out to become a programmer I thought that it would be great. my work will be filled with: Joy of creation when working on building a solution to other people problems moments of joy when completing new things and releasing them to the market moments of satisfaction from work well done moments of eureka when I find great solution to difficult problems moments of collaboration when I work with my team members to achieve a shared goal a few years later I found out that: its not fun when you finally get your product to the market realizing you just solved the wrong problem...

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Posted in: Agile Values

Why should you Learn TDD

One word: I believe that a developer work should be one filled with the joy of creation. When I started out to become a programmer I thought that it would be great. my work will be filled with: Joy of creation when working on building a solution to other people problems moments of joy when completing new things and releasing them to the market moments of satisfaction from work well done moments of eureka when I find great solution to difficult problems moments of collaboration when I work with my team members to achieve a shared goal a few years later I found out that: its not fun when you finally get your product to the market realizing you just solved the wrong problem Its annoying that...

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Posted in: Engineering Practices,TDD

Instoolation

Instoolation (n): belief that process problems can be solved by installing a tool. Gojko Adzic, BDD: busting the Myths. I see that mistake more and more everywhere I go. During last Iltam meeting Elad gave a talk about tools for agile project management and the general spirit of the audience was, we have all sorts of thing we need to solve and we expect a good tool to help us solve those. things like dependency tracking, risk management, predictability, traceability, and more. there is no tool that will solve any of those problems, you first need to install a good process that address those problems and later on you might be able to use a tool to help you to reduce the effort you invest in the solution. but actually I didn’t want to write...

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Posted in: stories,tools

30 days experiments

If you have been following my blog you might have noticed a bizarre pattern in my posting. OK’ lets face it. I’ve been silent for more than 6 months and suddenly there’s an almost endless burst of posts. What’s up with that? One of the session I had the luck to join at xp2012 was a group of lightening talks. it was lucky cause I drifted in towards its end and managed to catch the last couple of talks. The first one I already blogged: The Manager's Dilemma by Ola Sundin dealt about management role. this post is dedicated to the second one and that one actually triggered my burst of posts. Making Change Stick in 30 Days The session was given by Tom Kealy and was talking about doing small experiments in changing behavior. I’ll let the slides...

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Posted in: Random Thoughts

My Personal eXtreme Programming story

Today at Iltam meeting, I shared my personal experience in using a development process based on Extreme Programming. For all of you which are interested the slides (Prezi) can be found here. I also would like to take a moment and thank Moshe Salem and Shlomit Morad for inviting us once again to give this session. And last I want to remind you that next week we will be having the 9th meeting of the Agile Practitioners group. in this session Ayende will share his experience and his wisdom in writing automated tests. to register to the meeting go here Want to adopt Agile and don’t know where to start? click here to learn...

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Posted in: Events,XP