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divisions by responsibility and business value are the best.

Poppendieck compared waterfall to a “defect injection process”, saying that if specifications written first, then test and code based on those specifications by different people, the chance of them matching is very small, and there is nobody really to blame for that. She proposed that specifications should be written in the form of tests straight away, and then the code written according to these tests, to eliminate one potential cause of mismatch (specifications-tests) and ensure that the other (specifications-code) is easy to verify. This effectively is the idea behing agile acceptance testing.

Performance reviews and training programs define the firm's expectations. Financial reward systems reinforce them. Memos and communications highlight what's important. And senior leadership actions — promotions for people who toe the line and a dead end career for those who don't — emphasize the firm's priorities.

Now the head of the firm wanted to change the rules mid-game.

La Justicia incrementa las responsabilidades de las consultoras informáticas. Un Juzgado de Primera Instancia de Vitoria ha declarado ilícita la conducta de una gran consultora informática a la que se había encomendado la realización de una implantación informática del conocido programa de gestión empresarial ERP SAP y ha calificado como "abandono de obra" ilícito la no terminación del programa, sentando así un importante precedente acerca de la siempre controvertida cuestión relativa a la naturaleza y el régimen jurídico aplicable a este tipo de proyectos informáticos.

no cabe ninguna duda de que se trata de un contrato de arrendamiento de obra y no de un mero contrato de servicios, como sostenía la consultora

"Quality of a product is satisfied customer" - This statement is so true, but at the same time it's so vague.

Educate human resources people. Make them aware of what “Certified Scrum Master” really means and let them think for themselves.

Act professional, don’t just claim to be certified.

The desire to manage tasks in an agile process is evidence that a team is not collaborating.

In lieu of tracking progress by marking off completed stories, they look at progress in terms of what tasks have been completed.

The Page Object pattern, popularised by Simon Stewart with WebDriver, seems to be the universally accepted best practice to manage UI tests efficiently and the preferred way to implement Selenium tests. However, at the recent CITCON Europe conference in Paris, Antony Marcano spoke against this and offered an alternative.

Marcano said that page objects focus on the wrong thing.

Services and Repositories can (and often need to be) aware of the entities they manipulate, but entities (usually) shouldn’t be aware of the services or repositories that manipulate THEM.

in a sense a repository is a just a ‘persistence-service’ for your domain. 

People are not doing what they think is important.

Managers who want better results must acknowledge that they have to actively change the attitudes and behavior of their people. They must stimulate craftsmanship and discipline.

It is a skill that takes hours of practice to master. Don’t argue with someone over your experience; instead, make him live through the same experience.

Make sure you are reasonably good at TDD and have built a reasonably sized application before you try to show someone else how to do it.