Author Archives: Tom

Agility, Speed & Test Driven Development

July 30, 2009 – 10:18 am

I’ve just been through the updates from the groups I’m connected with on LinkedIn, and I read an interesting quote about Agility and speed.
If you focus on Quality, through effective refactoring and test coverage, speed will be maintained in the long term. When the code base gets quite large, speed of change can be difficult [...]

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Learn Scrum in under 10 minutes

December 12, 2008 – 12:11 pm

Here at White October, we’re using Scrum to manage projects for some of our clients.  There’s a very good short introduction to Scrum on YouTube.  You can view it here: Learn Scrum in under 10 Minutes
Scrum is an Agile method and allows us to develop features iteratively.  This means we’re best placed to be proactive [...]

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