Reviews

• Transformation
• Six Thinking Hats
• Soul of a New Machine
• Presentation Zen
• He and We
• Dune
• Dean Koontz's Frankenstein
• Structured Design
• The Well at the World's End
• Book Of Rhymes
• Anathem
• The Time Traveler's Wife
• More...

News

• For fun: Programming Language Puzzle (Word Stack)
• Join the anti-IF campaign: http://www.antiifcampaign.com
• I've joined Industrial Logic to help with their consulting and training practice.
• Kevin Rutherford and I have completed Refactoring in Ruby. Available as of October, 2009.
• The oozinoz.com web site associated with Design Patterns in Java is now at oozinoz.xp123.com. You can download the code there.
• There are new pictures in the Room and Charts Gallery (March '09)
• Design Patterns in Java: The late Steve Metsker & I have updated his earlier Design Patterns Java Workbook and Design Patterns in C#. This new book is more of a standalone text than either of those, and is full of exercises to develop and test your understanding of Gamma et al.'s classic patterns. Reviews at Amazon, JavaRanch, Java Posse (podcast).

XPlorations - Most Recent

• Alexey Krivitsky - Coach Interview
• Embracing Commitment
• Refactoring Grid (images updated, link to game sheets)
• 100 Impediments
• Summary Sheet: Twenty Ways to Split Stories
• User Story Examples
• Declan Whelan Interview
• Lisamarie Babik Interview
• Set-Based Concurrent Engineering (updated with comments from Kent Beck)
• Room and Charts Gallery (updated)
• Twenty Ways to Split Stories

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Favorite Pages

• XP on One Page
• Scrum on a Page
• Room and Charts Gallery
• Scrum from Hell
• Test-First Challenge
• Job Aids
• Twenty Ways to Split Stories

Conferences

• Agile '10. Nashville, TN. Aug. 4-8, 2010.

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