Improving Podcasts

This is our one-year episode! In this podcast Allen is joined by Ed Grannan and Gary McCants to discuss the one year anniversary of Improving Podcasts. The team covers their favorite episodes from the past year and gives some new and different perspectives on those topics.

• Reflection on Episode 3 – Throw Away Your Unit Tests
• Confidence vs. faith
• More on acceptance testing
• Test maintenance
• Reflection on Episode 13 – Agile Games
• Our favorite games and how we use them to teach
• Visit TastyCupcakes.com
• Different perspectives on Navel Gazing and Agile Team Rooms episodes
• Experts help: Todd Girvin and Chris Tullier
• Reflection on Episode 19 – Bringing Order to Chaos
• Reflection on Episode 5 – Improving Presentations
• The benefit of quality contributors
• Summary of our recent episode on Spartan Programming

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Allen and Mike get together on Memorial Day to discuss a few articles from around the Agile web. The tour touches on the “Sufficient Design” discussion, whether the term “refactoring” is already dead, and whether certifications are good, irrelevant, evil, or all of the above.

Links:

• Joshua Kerievsky – Sufficient Design
• Joshua Kerievsky – When Sufficient Design Means Poor Design
• Ron Jeffries – Quality vs Speed? I Don’t Think So!
• Robert C. Martin – Sufficient Design means Damned Good Design
• Steven Ropa – Refactoring: You keep using that word…
• Naresh Jain – I know TDD coz…
• Naresh Jain – Social Credibility: Alternatives to Certification?
• Chet Hendrickson – One More Arrow In Our Quiver
• Ron Jeffries – Certified, Heard About It, Done It … Expert
• Bob Martin – Certification: Don’t Waste Your Time!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:42 — 19.7MB)