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I’m still only half way through The White Book v2 but something has struck me. Whenever Kent Beck comes up with an anecdote about a real project that had problems, it seems that it usually ends with “…unfortunately I couldn’t convince them to…”. Am I just imagining this? If he can see problems, but can’t [...]

So it seems that Kent Beck has completely replaced the concept of “Velocity” with the idea of a “Budget” in XP version 2. I think this is an attempt to speak in language that business people will understand. To be honest though, it seems that even technical people have difficulty with this word too. [...]

In the good old days when I spent my time cranking out PL/SQL, I spent lots of time creating cursors, since these are the best way for PL/SQL to interact with SQL. So, you define a cursor, open it and step through the rows that get returned, usually doing stuff with each row. [...]

Only a little way into “The White Book” (see previous post) and already there are some nice quotable nuggets. I like this particularly:
It’s not my job to “manage” someone else’s expectations. It’s their job to manage their expectations. It’s my job to do my best and to communicate clearly.
As usual, Kent Beck takes the [...]

I’ve just got a copy of v2 of the “White Book“. Having just been to XPDay, I’m full of agile zeal, so it shouldn’t take too long to read it…