Tag: xp
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My takeaways from a TDD debate between Cope & Uncle Bob
As a developer, there is a high chance that you had a debate on the value of TDD in building software, especially if you apply it! I had a lot of those debates! A couple of months ago, I came across such a debate between Jim Coplien and Robert Martin (Uncle Bob). I found this…
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XP Days Benelux
On the 24th and the 25th of November, I was (with ten of my colleagues) in Heeze, Kapellerput in the Netherlands attending the two days conference ‘XP Days – Benelux‘! The sessions at the conference were categorized as “Technology and Technique,” “Customer and Planning,” “Team and Individual” and “Process and Improvement.” And some of which were…
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Extreme Practices – Video
The video of our talk at AgileTour Beirut is finally available online! You can watch it here: You can also have a look at my previous two blogs on the subject: Extreme Practices – The Preparation Extreme Practices – Agile Tour Beirut
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Extreme Practices – Agile Tour Beirut
In my previous post, I shared with you how Philippe and I prepared for our talk “Extreme Practices.” In this post, I will be briefing the talk’s content; starting with the pitch and ending with the feedback! Philippe has already posted a blog on the talk that you can read here. Pitching Each of the speakers had…
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Extreme Practices – The Preparation
Extreme Practices was the name of the talk Philippe and I gave at the AgileTour in Beirut on 15th of October, which based on the feedback was a successful one! Our main focus was on the practices of extreme programming and how to adopt them in a distributed team. As this was my first talk,…
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Newcomers’ Training Program
Recently, I was in charge of training two fresh-graduate newcomers to our department. My mission was to prepare a two weeks program to ease the integration process with their teams. After a short brainstorming, I decided to break the training into the following seven topics: Agile Practices: Their first assignment was getting acquainted with the Agile methodologies (mainly…
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An XP Interview
While reading the book “Extreme Programming Explained,” I came across an interview with Brad Jensen a Senior Vice President of Airline Products Development at Sabre Airline Solutions. During the interview, Brad explained how he applied XP within his company and some of the difficulties he faced. In this blog, I will be sharing my takeaways…
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Let’s make the tests green
Two weeks ago we started running coding dojo sessions at our offices in Beirut, the first sessions we had so far were much better than what we expected. In this article, I will be sharing my experience (as the one running those sessions) starting from the preparation and ending by the feedback on those sessions.…
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