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Screencast: Testing Web Applications in .NET with Cuke4Nuke and WatiN

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Yesterday, I released Cuke4Nuke 0.2.2, which added WatiN compatibility and an example of how to use the two tools together. Here’s a short screencast in which I walk through the example:

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December 3rd, 2009 at 8:53 am

Short Answers #2: What to Focus on in 2009

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It’s officially a series now. In this Short Answers video, I answer the question, “If my Scrum team could work on one thing in 2009, what should it be?”

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January 3rd, 2009 at 4:48 pm

New Benjamin Zander Video – “How Fascinating!”

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There’s a new Benjamin Zander video over at the Pop!Tech conference website. There’s some overlap with the video from TED I posted back in June—most of the content in each video expands on the ideas in The Art of Possibility. Nonetheless, this video is well worth watching even if you’ve seen the few other videos of him on the internet.

In this video, Zander works with a 15-year-old cellist—who, as far as the boy knows, has come simply to perform for the crowd—and over the course of 20 minutes turns a technically sound performance into music, music that touches everyone there.

One moment that connects with me as an agile coach is when he teaches the young cellist how to respond to mistakes in a performance.

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December 12th, 2008 at 11:10 am

Short Answers #1: When Stories Are Larger Than Planned

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I’m experimenting with video for what is likely become a new series here. In these “Short Answers” posts, I’ll answer an agile question in about a minute. Use the comments to suggest questions you’d like to see in future Short Answers.

In this post, I answer the question, “What should I do when I discover in the middle of a sprint that a story is larger than we planned?” Several people have asked me this, and the answer is not, “Suck it up and work 80 hours to get everything done.”

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December 10th, 2008 at 4:20 pm