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Matt Kimber

Testing and discovery

I've just been writing some unit tests prior to doing a bit of development, and it's revealed some interesting things about the codebase I'm working on. I think developers shy away from test-driven development (TDD) due to the change in thinking required, which is

On source control migration

If I had to pick a class of project more likely to have me groaning and clutching my head in my hands than any other, then source control migrations would definitely be on the list. The strange thing is, I have absolutely nothing against making changes to your toolset when

Painting by numbers

I'm a real fan of estimating things by doing relative sizing with planning poker cards. The cards mean everyone gets a say, the Fibonacci-like number sequence of the deck avoids getting bogged down in differentiating between tiny graduations in task complexity, and the relative nature of the sizing…

That's Not Agile

For every 10 companies claiming to have an agile development environment, maybe 1 actually does. This is because "Agile" sounds a lot better than "horrible collection of organisational code smells we've accumulated by having no real process". Here are some things that are emphatically

Innovation is about commitment

I was talking to a friend of mine last night and we happened upon the topic of how the company he works for talks constantly about innovation while paradoxically producing less and less of it. There's a simple reason for this, best illustrated by two examples. * Innovation in