Last year Bob Martin gave my coworkers and me some training on how to implement Test Driven Development.  Bob advocated for very small methods – even suggesting that methods often only have one or two lines of code.  If they started approaching five to ten, they could probably be broken down into separate methods. Yesterday, [...]

I was reading Bill de hOra the other day, and he mentions Tesler’s Law. I’d never heard of Tesler or his law, so I followed the link. Turns out Larry Tesler is a pretty big name in the user interface field, as far as I can gather, although his law is lacking a Wikipedia page [...]

Being agile does not mean rigidly adhering to a system called Agile.  Being agile means adapting to the situation at hand, no matter how you choose to adapt. That’s my take from Steve McConnell’s latest post and I completely agree with him.