Project after project, team after team. There's one constant factor that I come across over and over again when I work with teams who are doing Agile Software Development.

Which is: they're not. Not really.

No more prevelant is this than with the hugley popular, but - it transpires - rarely actually practiced, Test-driven Development.

Shockingly, even experienced Agile coaches have a tendency to let things slip when they're doing TDD.

I've been having fun using the new StackOverflow site for answering technical questions.

Here is a Python script I call 'StackOverlow Fight' (like Google Fight). It takes a list of tags and gets the count of questions that are tagged with each one.

As an example, here is StackOverflow fight between some popular programming languages:

A while ago I answered the following question on SearchSoftwareQuality.com’s Ask The Software Quality Expert: Questions & Answers. What’s the exact difference between an error, a defect and a bug?Here is a clip from my answer: I like James Bach’s and Michael Bolton’s definition of a bug:"A bug is something that bugs somebody who matters."I [...]

On October 11th and 12th, I’ll be at RubyDCamp, an Open Space / FooCamp style workshop near Washington, D.C. It’s USD100 until October 6.I won’t be going to Agile Open California, an Open Space style conference on October 6th and 7th in San Bruno. I went to the first Agile Open in Portland, and it [...]