Archive for February, 2012

ASP.Net Web Api Integration Tests With Self Hosting

I am trying to help out a team to verify some of their stuff works with the new ASP.Net Web API 4 Beta.  While they seem to have a number of unit tests of good quality, there was a dearth of integration tests.  I set out to resolve that as simply as possible. To clarify [...]

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Better Burndown: Forecasts that reflect the Cone of Uncertainty

The humble burndown is very easy to create, interpret, use and abuse.  They can be very simple, allowing for much discussion and interpretation (or just interpretation… tisk tisk):   or they can provide a pretty direct message: Less is More… During a course discussion with fellow PSD trainers a few years ago I made the [...]

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Time box: Get-Stuff-Done Tool for Risk Reduction, Focus, and Decision Making

This is part two of a three part series Time box: A Holistic View on Sprints and Iterations Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. ~ Parkinson’s Law, Cyril Northcote Parkinson On Risk Reduction Teams talk some good game when they sell Agile to their organizational leaders: real software in [...]

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