http://jakub.dziwisz.org Blog of Jakub Dziwisz Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:14:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently I stumbled upon a quote that in my opinion very well describes what does it mean to lead a team of individuals working primarily with information, or - actually - in any unstable environment. A young American infantry captain in the Vietnam jungle asked by a journalist how could he ... http://jakub.dziwisz.org/2008/05/12/leadership-in-knowledge-organizations/ At the beginning of March I heard about Mockito for the first time. Till the last week I didn't have any opportunity to play with it. Fortunately I've just started a brand new project. After a couple of days I can say that Mockito seriously supports Test-Driven approach and heavily ... http://jakub.dziwisz.org/2008/03/25/mockito-the-enjoyable-way-of-mocking/ I'd like to thank all those guys (two thirds of attendees) that decided to fill out our survey. At the same time I'm really proud of number of positive opinions. In short - we have no choice but to prepare the next Iteration. Here are some details: Almost 70% of respondents ... http://jakub.dziwisz.org/2008/03/15/agileunderground-survey-results/ Another interesting thing, besides giving the "Agile approach to SOA" presentation, we did at Studencki Festiwal Informatyczny is conducting XP Lego Game. The game was first presented at XP Day 2005 and then at Agile 2006. Yesterday it was its first public presentation in Poland. The event was organized by ... http://jakub.dziwisz.org/2008/03/07/agile-lego-game-sfi/ Another short note: The last year I spent a considerable amount of time with a very interesting team. They are building a unified hotel platform that will replace all the existing systems. The design is based on Service-Oriented Architecture concepts. It's a significant project - their budget exceeds 100k hours ... http://jakub.dziwisz.org/2008/03/05/agile-approach-to-soa-case-study/ Some time ago at Java Developers Day 2007 I met Tyrel McMahan who runs SitesCollide series of podcasts. We had a long discussion on Test-Driven Development. A couple of days ago Tyrel published it as (no surprise) a podcast. You may find it here. Enjoy ;). http://jakub.dziwisz.org/2008/03/04/tdd-podcast/ Phew... the event took place. Over 40 people attended (see the pics made by Krzysiek Dorosz), there were a couple of good presentations (see the agenda) and, last but not least, I had much fun! And a hangover the next day ;). We already received a number of questions about ... http://jakub.dziwisz.org/2008/03/02/agileunderground-iteration-1-delivered/ Only two days left till http://underground.agile.org.pl/. To my surprise, everything seems to be ready. We've got the room, the equipment. Beer is secured. On the other hand, we're organizing it for the first time, therefore we don't really know what are the expectations of our guests. Actually, it's our first ... http://jakub.dziwisz.org/2008/02/26/agileunderground-in-2-days/ The beginning of a new year is often the time of setting goals. Way too often I need to explain why it's a bad idea to judge developers' performance by code coverage, story pints accomplished or lines of code that she wrote. Here is one more argument against it: The manual ... http://jakub.dziwisz.org/2008/01/04/measuring-effectiveness-of-a-knowledge-worker/ I'm really happy that I attended the Java Developers Day conference this year. The organizers prepared everything exceptionally well, and the lectures were very interesting. I especially liked the one given by Jonas Boner from Terracota Inc. about the JVM-level clustering. After a short introduction he presented a few ... http://jakub.dziwisz.org/2007/10/26/jdd-07/