• Mountain Goat Software - Selecting the Right Iteration Length for Your Software Development Process - Agile Development Training and Consulting
  "I find two-week iterations to be ideal. The overhead for planning and testing is much more manageable when amortized across two weeks. The first week of a two-week iteration may feel different from the second week, but the difference is not as dramatic a
  (tags: agile iterations software dev)
• Coding Horror: Dysfunctional Specifications
  "You have to strike some kind of balance between a one-page vision statement and an obsessively detailed five volume masterwork of a functional spec. "
  (tags: spec software dev functional documentation)
• A Set of Unit Testing Rules
  "Generally, unit tests are supposed to be small, they test a method or the interaction of a couple of methods. When you pull the database, sockets, or file system access into your unit tests, they aren’t really about those methods any more; they are abo
  (tags: agile dev software tests unittest)