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  1. Re: Local adaptations (was: New Blog Entry - Agile Circling the Drai
    Manuel, ... will ... way ... I don't use TDD to catch bugs, I use TDD to prevent bugs. So yes, it is cheaper to not put them in in the first place... and I use...
    - Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:06:55 GMT
  2. Re: energized work and individual contributions
    On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:32 AM, D. André Dhondt ... Probably need to include "don't know". ... I suggest a "360 degree" review (by web surveys to save time),...
    - Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:58:15 GMT
  3. Re: Local adaptations (was: New Blog Entry - Agile Circling the Drai
    ... Sometimes my unit tests will catch bugs. Wouldn't it be cheaper to not insert them in the first place? I don't see what you're aiming at... ... So how do...
    - Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:42:45 GMT
  4. Re: energized work and individual contributions
    It's hard to answer with a boolean, but yes, I think the team provides a safe enough environment to respond to this accurately. It may be safer to reduce the...
    - Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:32:44 GMT
  5. Re: Local adaptations (was: New Blog Entry - Agile Circling the Drai
    Manuel, ... unit ... It's hard to sell the notion that "sometimes" my acceptance tests will tell me that I forgot something. Wouldn't it be cheaper to find a...
    - Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:32:23 GMT
  6. Re: energized work and individual contributions
    On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 4:24 PM, D. André Dhondt ... I take it your team is inj an exceptionally safe environment and people will actually answer such a chart...
    - Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:25:55 GMT
  7. energized work and individual contributions
    From the perspective of supporting energized work, helping our team gel, and for nurturing individual developer growth, my team is currently building a model...
    - Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:24:20 GMT
  8. Re: Local adaptations (was: New Blog Entry - Agile Circling the Drai
    ... I did not mean that it is easier to cover corner cases at the acceptance level, I just said that I forget to see them at the unit level, and that sometimes...
    - Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:13:11 GMT
  9. Re: Local adaptations (was: New Blog Entry - Agile Circling the Drai
    Manuel, ... Is it easier to cover corner cases at the acceptance level than the unit level? We have experienced the opposite, as corner cases at the unit ...
    - Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:52:44 GMT
  10. Re: Local adaptations (was: New Blog Entry - Agile Circling the Drai
    To jump in: The root cause acceptance tests solve for me is that: - I do forget to write unit tests for corner cases, even if I try to do TDD, probably because...
    - Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:49:12 GMT
  11. Re: Local adaptations (was: New Blog Entry - Agile Circling the Drai
    Ron, ... There is a difference and I am asking what you (and others) think the root causes are that are somehow addressed by acceptance tests. I suppose I...
    - Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:06:20 GMT
  12. Re: Local adaptations (was: New Blog Entry - Agile Circling the Drai
    Hello, Matt. On Thursday, November 20, 2008, at 4:46:58 PM, you ... Distinction without a difference? Or would you care to say what problem they are symptoms...
    - Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:51:09 GMT
  13. Re: Local adaptations (was: New Blog Entry - Agile Circling the Drai
    Doug, ... acceptance ... problem. ... We usually find those kinds of problems when we check in. Our unit test coverage is pretty good and they point directly...
    - Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:05:13 GMT
  14. Re: Fixed Duration Iterations
    Yes, they can. Tim Ottinger http://agileotter.blogspot.com/...
    - Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:41:24 GMT
  15. Re: Local adaptations (was: New Blog Entry - Agile Circling the Drai
    ... Ah.... Yes. But, when an acceptance test breaks, and we run all of them everyday, we usually have a pretty darn good idea which thing we were working on...
    - Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:44:12 GMT