jdlshore

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   by jdlshore 15y ago

   State of the art is difficult to answer, given how faddish programming trends can be. It's hard to separate the truly important ideas from the ideas that are merely popular. I don't think any of the truly important ideas are all that new. H
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   by jdlshore 16y ago

   As much as I appreciate your praise of TDD here, there are large categories of defects that TDD does nothing to prevent. TDD only helps programmers write the code they intended to write. It doesn't protect against programmer misunderstandin
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   by jdlshore 16y ago

   How do you know they don't? Mojang Specifications, this year's hottest new game studio, uses Scrum. The Lean Startup movement combines customer discovery with Agile practices. That said, my experience is that development practices have litt
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   by jdlshore 16y ago

   The name "Agile" was coined in 2001, but the movement now known as Agile started in the late 90's. I've been involved with it for 11 years. It was most certainly a grass-roots movement when it started. Much of the early discussion took plac
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   by jdlshore 16y ago

   That's not what I was trying to say, but I can understand why you'd think that. The deeper point was this: "Agile" started out as a grassroots movement among programmers. As a grassroots movement, it got enough people excited, and experienc