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How agile is your country?
Google's new Trends service (which appears to be the old Zeitgeist but now on demand) allows you to find out what people are searching on. I tried it with a number of different Microsoft agile terms and was surprised at the results: It is only a relative Read More...

Posted Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:33 PM by jonathan.cogley | 0 Comments

Pair Programming Presented
Over the last few months, I have presented a session on Pair Programming to two User Groups ( WinProTeam Rockville and PA FoxPro ) and one Code Camp ( Richmond this last weekend). I especially enjoy presenting this topic for a number of reasons: It is Read More...

Posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006 1:00 AM by jonathan.cogley | 0 Comments

Last minute presentation: Pair Programming in Fairfax with the Potomac Area FoxPro Users Group
Unfortunately the speaker for March is unable to make it so I have been asked if I would present this month instead of later this year. I will be presented on Pair Programming at the Potomax Area FoxPro Users Group on Thursday 2nd March 2006 in Fairfax, Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 01, 2006 9:50 AM by jonathan.cogley | 0 Comments

Refactoring is not free (so defer it)
Paul Gielens has an interesting post discussing the cost of refactoring and deciding when to do so. I agree with Paul that refactoring is certainly not free and is in fact a very expensive process since it lacks one of the central benefits of Test Driven Read More...

Posted Sunday, December 04, 2005 11:12 AM by jonathan.cogley | 0 Comments

Scalable TDD
One of the problems that we come across as our projects mature is that the number of tests increase and so do test suite times. It seems inevitable ... something like the sun setting in the west and the CPU speed doubling every few years. The obvious Read More...

Posted Monday, November 21, 2005 11:07 PM by jonathan.cogley | 0 Comments

MVP Summit - Code Slam - GotDotNet Workspaces, Ward Cunningham and BlogML
Last night, the CodeSlam event took place at the Microsoft Company Store / Visitor Center (organized by Korby Parnell ). The list of .NET developer celebrities was impressive and too numerous to mention! The purpose of the event was to evangelize the Read More...

Posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 1:59 PM by jonathan.cogley | 0 Comments

Is Lean an easier sell than Agile or Extreme?
Last Thursday (7/14/2005), Mary Poppendieck was hosted by a local consulting company ( Sphere of Influence ) and spoke on Lean Software Development . The session was fascinating and presented a new spin on many of the familiar Agile topics. Tom (Mary's Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 1:43 AM by jonathan.cogley | 0 Comments