Exploration Through ExampleExample-driven development, Agile testing, context-driven testing, Agile programming, Ruby, and other things of interest to Brian Marick
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Wed, 12 May 2004My beloved wife is a veterinarian. I may have been the first computer programmer she'd ever met. While we were courting, we hung out with a variety of my programmer friends. One day, we were walking along, hand in hand, and she said, "Your friends are nice, [pause] but [pause] they have really strong opinions [pause] about everything". That was probably 15 years ago, but it still comes back to me occasionally. It came back to me once, in 1999, when a veterinarian at a party explained to me how simple the Y2K problem was. I suddenly realized that I'd never before had a veterinarian tell me - from a position of shallow knowledge - how easy my job is, but that I'd been guilty many times of assuming that I could, with only brief exposure, master and correct someone else's job. I wonder how often agile projects fail because the programmers take over from the customers? |
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