http://abc.truemesh.com/ en-us 2008-05-16T10:22:04+00:00 http://abc.truemesh.com/archives/000735.html I met up with Romilly Cockling and Liz Keogh at XTC this week. Romilly encouraged me to write something on Feature Injection. When I got home, I remembered that I had already written most of the Feature Injection stuff down... chrismatts 2008-05-16T10:22:04+00:00 http://abc.truemesh.com/archives/000721.html Just read a comment on JB Rainsberger's blog about peoples attitude to Freebies. It reminds me of a story a friend of mine told me about attitudes towards freebies. Several years ago he used to do free therapy sessions for... chrismatts 2007-11-01T10:12:05+00:00 http://abc.truemesh.com/archives/000691.html A few years ago I used to do a fair bit of Blogging. I'd opine on anything and everything, but mainly about Agile. I stopped. There are a number of reasons. One of the main reasons was that I left... chrismatts 2007-05-23T10:23:40+00:00 http://abc.truemesh.com/archives/000690.html http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/05/refactoring_the_agile_manifesto At the first ADC conference in Salt Lake City I put to Allistair Cockburn the idea that the Agile Manifesto should be "refactored" ( "rewritten" to non techy, non agile types ). It was obvious that "Business Value" was... chrismatts 2007-05-23T10:18:26+00:00 http://abc.truemesh.com/archives/000689.html Agile is a name. Simply that. You see a bit of land and call it "New Amsterdam", someone else comes along and calls it "New York", yet another person calls it "Mine". The name chosen says more about the person... chrismatts 2007-05-22T09:07:58+00:00 http://abc.truemesh.com/archives/000687.html I have heard about "Post-Agilism" from a number of sources. Just like Agile, each person has a different meaning and understanding. This is MY observation ( I own it in the sense I do not want to project it onto... chrismatts 2007-05-18T14:46:38+00:00 http://abc.truemesh.com/archives/000668.html Olav, Kent and I have submitted a couple of sessions to Agile 2007 and XP 2007. I'll let you know if we get accepted. I'll probably go to both anyway so see you there.... chrismatts 2007-02-03T12:05:55+00:00 http://abc.truemesh.com/archives/000576.html I found this presentation on the web last night. It is well worth ten minutes as it tells you how to learn, write and think more clearly. For those who are interested, I found it on del.icio.us... chrismatts 2006-01-09T11:54:45+00:00 http://abc.truemesh.com/archives/000551.html I have been a bit out of the Agile scene for the past few months. I have been focusing on a new job and it would be inappropriate for me to comment on the work that I have been doing... chrismatts 2005-10-29T20:29:14+00:00 http://abc.truemesh.com/archives/000549.html chrismatts 2005-10-23T19:19:02+00:00 http://abc.truemesh.com/archives/000541.html Hi all Not sure if anyone still has this Blog in their aggregator. I will be starting up again soon based on recent experience and new models developed. Speak to you soon. Chris... chrismatts 2005-10-20T21:36:30+00:00 http://abc.truemesh.com/archives/000478.html JBehave leaves the clever bits to people. Writing the acceptance criteria, scenarios, for a story is done by the business coach. JBehave then translates these scenarios into empty JBehave classes. The developer then writes the code within the JBehave classes.... chrismatts 2004-12-15T15:58:50+00:00 http://abc.truemesh.com/archives/000477.html Business Value Driven Development is essentially XP using Behaviour Driven Development with an explanation of where the Stories come from in the first place.... chrismatts 2004-12-15T15:43:45+00:00 http://abc.truemesh.com/archives/000476.html The diagram below shows Business Value Driven Development. The starting point for any project should be the business strategy. We ensure allignment to the strategy by developing a business value model that is alligned to the strategy using the Grid... chrismatts 2004-12-15T15:37:32+00:00 http://abc.truemesh.com/archives/000475.html ThoughtWorks is still probably the best company in the world to work for. I am leaving for personnal reasons. I was ill last year and feel that I need some certainty in my life. Working for consultancy means that you... chrismatts 2004-12-15T10:22:28+00:00