I just watched a presentation by Jeff Patton about using personas for requirements gathering. I especially liked his comparison of personas to tests in test driven development (TDD). He argues that using personas for requirements gathering is…

ThoughtWorks’ technology radar suggested to start thinking about ‘Java end of life’ in its January 2010 issue. In following issues of the same document they list several languages that strive to be Java’s successor on the JVM. In order to lure the Java community into their net…

Lean Thinking suggests that estimation is to be considered wasteful. Instead, the throughput time (lead time) for planned items is projected by using previous measurements. I always thought this was an interesting approach and today I came across this screencast about Naked Planning, a…

This is a follow-up post to my last one, where I was wondering which language will be Java’s successor as mainstream language on the JVM. I also asked the same question on quora.com, where I am going to maintain my opinion on this topic and also hope to get some…

Automatic hashcode method generation

When reading the book Implementation Patterns on the bus to work one morning I came across a…

The Scrum Guide states that transparency is one of the three legs underpinning Scrum, with inspection and adaption being the other two. Since adaption depends on inspection and inspection depends on transparency, one could argue that transparency is the foundation of Scrum. So I…

Update [15.05.2010]: I finally had a chance to try out SecureCI, which is pretty much exactly what I described in this post. The guys from Coveros did a great job, so I suggest after reading this post you head over to their website, download SecureCI and give it a go. Thanks John for pointing…