Blog Archive 2011 Towers Episode 1: The Reclining Ribcage Jan 18 2011 Towers Prologue: GOOS, The Itch, Blunt Instruments, and The Thing Jan 18 2011 What JUnit Rules are Good For Jan 04 2011 2010 Using Rules to Influence JUnit Test Execution Dec 15 2010 One Small Thing Dec 13 2010 The Certification Prime Directive Nov 04 2010 Questions to Explore Problems Aug 30 2010 A Human Bias Toward Standards of Perfection Jul 29 2010 Bob and Dale Chat about Social Challenges at Work Jun 20 2010 Problem Statement Smells Jun 05 2010 Four Layers in Automated Tests Mar 15 2010 2009 Tradeoffs Dec 09 2009 Writing Maintainable Automated Acceptance Tests Nov 23 2009 Too Much To Ask May 29 2009 Enthusiasm as a Human Resource Apr 20 2009 The Anatomy of a Responsibility Mar 09 2009 Planned Response Systems Feb 19 2009 2008 Beware Accounting Errors Dec 31 2008 Testing is an Information Service Dec 30 2008 Interviewing Characters: Follow the Energy Sep 10 2008 Loopy Conversations: What versus how, means versus ends, requirements versus design choices Jul 29 2008 Introducing Gibberizer: Automated Gibberish Jun 22 2008 Key Bindings in Eclipse/RCP Applications Jun 07 2008 Developing Story Ideas by Clustering May 22 2008 Code coverage does not imply test coverage May 21 2008 Fantasy and Science Fiction July 2008 May 14 2008 Scenes and Beats May 09 2008 Writing Excuses Podcast Feb 13 2008 Writing with Variables Feb 12 2008 2007 NaNoWriMo 2007–Many Happy Returns Oct 29 2007 Non-parallel parallels Oct 24 2007 The CwD Shuffle Oct 20 2007 Leading Horses to Water Aug 16 2007 Example of a professional book sales pitch Jan 12 2007 Outlining and strawberries Jan 10 2007 2006 Developing Agile Teams Dec 27 2006 NaNoWriMo Oct 31 2006 DaNoFiWriMo Progress Oct 28 2006 Reflections from DaNoFiWriMo Week 3 Oct 23 2006 Reflections from DaNoFiWriMo Week 2 Oct 17 2006 Join Me at the AYE Conference Oct 12 2006 Reflections from DaNoFiWriMo Week 1 Oct 08 2006 What Questions Do You Have About Resistance? Sep 29 2006 Rewriting the Story of Resistance Sep 28 2006 DaNoFiWriMo Sep 28 2006 Naming Unit Tests Mar 27 2006 Role Mar 15 2006 Information Mar 15 2006 2005 Multitasking and Conflict Nov 03 2005 How I Became a Coach Aug 04 2005 The Acceptance Question Aug 02 2005 The Pecker Principle Aug 01 2005 Motivation May 18 2005 The Unbearable Lightness of Faking Apr 14 2005 Test Classes in Isolation and in Collaboration Apr 14 2005 The Resistance as a Resource Game Apr 08 2005 Effectiveness Mar 11 2005 The Unwritten Rule of the Unwritten Rule Mar 03 2005 Guidelines for Defining, Writing, and Maintaining Policies Mar 01 2005 What Do You Want From Tests? Feb 22 2005 The Ladder of Delegation Jan 26 2005 Promoting Change When People Prefer Familiarity Jan 17 2005 2004 Permission to Help Oct 17 2004 The Structure of Power Aug 20 2004 Resource Aug 20 2004 Appreciation Aug 19 2004 Manipulation Aug 17 2004 Empower Aug 17 2004 Power Aug 17 2004 Your Needs for Workshops about Power and Leadership Aug 15 2004 The Law of Conservation of Frustration Aug 11 2004 Valuing Activity Aug 04 2004 Technology Aug 04 2004 The Purpose of Automation Jul 21 2004 Planning Jul 15 2004 Leadership Jul 13 2004 The Prime Project Failure Factor Jun 06 2004 Agility and Service Jun 05 2004 Trust, Disappointment and Choice Jun 04 2004 Misrepresenting Mehrabian May 06 2004 Emery’s Ironclad Test of Best Practices May 05 2004 Project Watch: Olympic Stadium May 05 2004 Confusion is Information May 04 2004 Interacting Flows: Value, Authority, and Communication May 03 2004 Dimensions of Software Testing Apr 29 2004 Aggregates and the Imbalance of Power Apr 06 2004 A Spiral Method Writing Session Mar 06 2004 Experiences with The Spiral Method Mar 06 2004 The Spiral Method for Writing Zeroth Drafts Mar 06 2004 Testing Needs and Wants Mar 04 2004 The Structure of Values Feb 26 2004 Tests for Listening Jan 19 2004 Strategies for Stability Jan 13 2004 Crucial Conversations Jan 04 2004 My Favorite Books of 2003 Jan 04 2004 2003 Judging Dec 31 2003 A Story of Resistance Resolved Dec 04 2003 A Relationship is a Story Dec 04 2003 Appreciate the Work Dec 03 2003 A Simple Measurement Dec 02 2003 Plan for the Present Nov 12 2003 Books about Writing Nov 11 2003 Writing with Power Nov 11 2003 Writing the Natural Way Nov 11 2003 Writing from the Inside Out Nov 11 2003 Writing Down the Bones Nov 11 2003 Style Nov 11 2003 Being a Writer Nov 11 2003 Directives Oct 30 2003 Defensiveness Oct 30 2003 The Change Agent's Offer Sep 30 2003 Empowerment Sep 29 2003 Significance Sep 17 2003 The Null Process Sep 16 2003 Third Person Underhanded Sep 15 2003 Good Questions Sep 12 2003 Risk and Commitment Sep 11 2003 Divide and Conquer Aug 20 2003 Estimates Are Not Commitments Aug 11 2003 Frames of Reference Aug 02 2003 Sustaining a Group Jul 31 2003 Open Space Technology Jul 31 2003 People Resist Change? Jul 30 2003 Can't Jul 29 2003 The Weight of Words Jun 26 2003 Defining Project Success Jun 25 2003 Congruence and the Prime Directive Jun 24 2003 The Second Directive Jun 23 2003 Creating Empathy Jun 11 2003 The Benefits of Failure Jun 10 2003 Don’t Be Nice, Be Real Jun 09 2003 Famous Leadership Case Study Jun 04 2003 The Value Question Jun 03 2003 Willing to Change May 21 2003 Discouraging Generalizations May 19 2003 The Cheeseburger Talk May 13 2003 Meet People Where They Are May 10 2003 The Broccoli Principle May 07 2003 Saying Yes, Letting Go May 06 2003 After All We've Done for Them May 05 2003 Alison's Advice Advice May 01 2003 Banish the Scope Creep Apr 30 2003 Sincerity Apr 28 2003 Turning to One Another Apr 24 2003 I Don’t Have Time Apr 23 2003 Dale Emery, Bureaucrat Apr 22 2003 Reversing the Definition Game Apr 16 2003 Quality is Time Apr 15 2003 Alignment, Accountability, and Priorities Apr 11 2003 Walking to the Horizon Apr 10 2003 The Responsibility Razor Apr 07 2003 Success, Belief, and Identity Apr 04 2003 Joy, Value, and Meaning Mar 31 2003 Managing Yourself Through Change Mar 24 2003
Loopy Conversations: What versus how, means versus ends, requirements versus design choices Jul 29 2008