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Pair Programming as a Motivator

Posted on 5 Feb 2010 by

Everyone has ups and downs. Maybe a fight with a significant other, or a problem with family, it doesn’t matter, brought you down. I went through something in this line a while ago, although for a completely different reason. But … Continue reading →

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Software Quality and Agile

Posted on 9 Jan 2009 by

Often when we talk about agile software development, we mention how important quality is. In this post, I’ll run quickly through some thoughts and practices on how agile tries to guarantee this so-called higher quality. When I first started using … Continue reading →

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Extreme Programming Explained

Posted on 22 Sep 2008 by

A while ago, I read the book Extreme Programming Explained – Embrace Change (2nd Edition), from Kent Beck. You can find it at amazon.com. In this post I’ll talk a little bit about this book. In this book, Kent Beck … Continue reading →

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Pair Programming

Posted on 7 Sep 2008 by

This is the way it works: every time anyone in the team needs to develop something, whatever it is, she does it in pairs. This means that two developers sit together and work to solve the same problem. Having done … Continue reading →

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Value is everything

Posted on 28 Aug 2008 by

Hello! My name is Paulo Renato, and I’ll be the writer of this blog =) To get this started, I want to talk about value. There are several other subjects to talk about in the topics that this blog intend … Continue reading →

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