Through my various experiences as a Developer, Technical Lead, Test Driven Development Mentor and Agile Coach, I have paired with more than 100 different Developers over the course of 10 years. As you can imagine, I’ve seen just about everything, the worst of the worst and the best of the best. Most of the people [...]
If I’ve heard it once at a retrospective, I’ve heard it a hundred times: We’re not switching pairs enough. Though not pair switching (or even pairing, period) often has more underlying root causes, one way to encourage a team who simply has some discipline problems and to get a sense of how much team members [...]
Our project has a requirement that the client be installable on a Windows workstation running Java Runtime Edition 1.4. To provide this capability, the team opted to use a technology called IzPack. IzPack provides a portable installer infrastructure, built in Java. The installer framework provides the features necessary to do uninstalls, automated installation and desktop [...]