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Comment on Agile Methods Incompatible with Human Psychology? by julie

julie — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:59:14 +0000

Interesting post!

Been coaching Agile for several years now and I take a different view – Agile transformation does not work unless you take psychology and anthropology into account when planning.

For example food – I like to use food to entice folks into a heartbeat..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning backs this up.

Chocolate stimulates our pleasure centres, bring it to meets and after a short while people become patterned to thinking of the meet as something that gives them pleasurable feelings.

Also, humans are tribal .. eating together builds rapports and encourages personal relationships..all essential when going through a change towards collaborative working

Comment on Collocated Teams: 7 Problems With Face-to-Face Communication by Public Relations Final Exam Part 1 « Cornier270's Blog

Public Relations Final Exam Part 1 « Cornier270's Blog — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:58:57 +0000

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Comment on Unexpected Multithreading in Java by D.sunayana

D.sunayana — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:12:43 +0000

how to access the multthreading program from main program using threads in java

Comment on Multithread Testing Challenges in Java by Nick Campbell

Nick Campbell — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:12:54 +0000

Nice writeup. I agree that it is a very complicated problem, but it is a set of tasks that needs to be harnessed. ConTest seems very promising and I’m planning to use it for a couple of projects.

Thanks for the writeup.

Comment on APM Tooling Survey and XPlanner by Steve

Steve — Sat, 17 May 2008 23:45:18 +0000

I haven’t worked on XPlanner for a few years now. You could ask your question on the XPlanner discussion forum at…

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=161119

Regards,

Steve

Comment on APM Tooling Survey and XPlanner by eswar

eswar — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:45:42 +0000

I like XPlanner. However, there is no release beyond the beta? is there a specific reason why it is like that? Is it practically defunct now?

Comment on Using JRuby for Java testing? by Evan Light

Evan Light — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:50:33 +0000

@paul: With regard to Groovy =~ Ruby and Ruby =~ Groovy, not so. Groovy’s metaprogramming API is big on ceremony whereas Ruby’s is simple yet immensely powerful. IMO, Ruby’s pure-OO nature and metaprogramming capabilities are what set it apart from other languages.

Comment on XPlanner on Rails Download by Steve

Steve — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:51:05 +0000

I don’t manage or work on the Java implementation of XPlanner any more. Jacques Morels is the project lead now.

As always, if someone wants to continue development on an XPlanner on Rails, I’m willing to support that effort. However, I have other projects that are currently using most of my spare time.

Comment on XPlanner on Rails Download by Tiago Franco

Tiago Franco — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:23:02 +0000

Hi,

Any progress on this?

I like xplanner, isn’t getting a release since 2006.

Thanks,
Tiago Franco

Comment on Using JRuby for Java testing? by Paul Davis

Paul Davis — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:45:30 +0000

Really, they are both great for unit testing java. Often, the setup code for jUnit is bigger (more verbose) than the actual tests being performed.

To offer comparisons, Groovy may be easier (for someone learning a new language) just because it is so close to java and is backwards compatible with it.

On the ruby side, beyond simple unit testing, RSpec is an elegant way to write behavior tests. Probably more elegant than any of the other ways to do it.

Groovy and Ruby are so similar that it’s hard to try to position one above the other.