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2025 2

  1. Daniel's Profile
  2. Best Simple System for Now

2024 2

  1. My Home Office Setup
  2. Interviewing for Evidence

2023 6

  1. Using Hugo as a redirect service
  2. McKinsey Developer Productivity Review
  3. The Worst Programmer I Know
  4. Advice to a New Speaker
  5. Seek First to Understand
  6. But what about the BAU work?

2022 2

  1. A bad (computer) system will beat a good person every time
  2. CUPID: for joyful coding

2021 5

  1. Cookie Policy
  2. Disclaimer
  3. Privacy Policy
  4. We need to talk about testing
  5. CUPID: the back story

2020 1

  1. The mystery of the missing date

2018 3

  1. Monte Python Simulation: misunderstanding Monte Carlo
  2. Better Best Practices
  3. In praise of SWARMing

2017 1

  1. Applying OKRs

2016 6

  1. Scratching a JUnit Itch
  2. How to train your Agile
  3. Thank you
  4. Adventures With Agile interview
  5. Deliberate Testing interview
  6. Upcoming classes

2015 3

  1. Two hours per team
  2. BDD by example
  3. Accelerated Agile is now Software, Faster

2014 3

  1. Capturing the narrative
  2. The Busy Kitchen - a parable of work in process
  3. Watch this space

2013 4

  1. Six Impossible Things
  2. Blink Estimation
  3. Are we nearly there yet?
  4. Accelerating Agile

2012 7

  1. Software Faster: from months to minutes
  2. Faster Organizations
  3. Secrets of an Agile Architect
  4. Under new management
  5. Published: The art of misdirection
  6. The Art of Misdirection
  7. BDD is like TDD if

2011 5

  1. The rise and rise of JavaScript
  2. Looking back on 2011
  3. Whose domain is it anyway?
  4. On craftsmanship
  5. Programming is not a craft

2010 2

  1. Introducing Deliberate Discovery
  2. Time for a change

2009 9

  1. The lady in the taxi - a parable of metrics
  2. New translations
  3. Introducing BDD in Japanese
  4. Welcome to my brain
  5. The perils of estimation
  6. One day DDD track at SkillsMatter
  7. I'll be Learning to Learn at the Better Software conference
  8. JAOO Australia
  9. RSpec book in beta

2008 10

  1. The End of Endotesting?
  2. JBehave 2.0 is live!
  3. Let your examples flow
  4. Learning to Lean
  5. Raizing money for Leukaemia Research
  6. Hacked!
  7. Better Best Practices at ExpertZone Stockholm
  8. Better Best Practices at Øredev
  9. Awesome Acceptance Testing at SPA 2008
  10. Goal-oriented vocabulary - saying what you mean

2007 14

  1. Debian breaks on Virtuozzo VPS
  2. Empty rooms
  3. Upcoming events
  4. Virtual mailboxes with courier-imap and postfix
  5. A Classic Introduction to SOA
  6. SOA for the rest of us
  7. Two flavours of BDD, or .net gets behaviour-driven
  8. Catching up
  9. Introducing RBehave
  10. Upcoming Talks
  11. Monkey business value
  12. Behaviour-driven stories
  13. Tagged
  14. What's in a Story?

2006 14

  1. Outcomes over Features: the fifth agile value?
  2. Article: Introducing Behaviour-Driven Development
  3. Introducing BDD
  4. Learning to learn
  5. How quickly can you evolve?
  6. There's more to BDD than evolving TDD
  7. How simple is too simple?
  8. Are you ready for the truth?
  9. Speaking at Expo-C
  10. Ruby session at ACCU 2006
  11. What's so hard about Event-Driven Programming?
  12. Continuous Build is not Continuous Integration
  13. BDD article published in Better Software magazine
  14. BDD with intent

2001 1

  1. Testing Faster