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Dave Nicolette has a post about using something called 9 boxes to interview your customers in a structured way when creating user stories. I don’t have too much experience with eliciting user stories myself, but that might be just the reason I would need a tool like this. To help me work through it in a structured way. Looks interesting.
I found this short post on pair programming which sums up many of my own experiences. Pair programming is one of my favorite tools, but it does require you to be aware of any potential problems. As in the article it is important to realize when it not suitable, and to remember to take regular brakes so the programmers can unwind and catch up on e-mails etc. Unscheduled meetings can also be a problem if one of the programmers constantly gets pulled away.
When I first read Domain Driven Design the role of a Repository was one of the things that were a bit hard to grasp. I really don’t think I have a clear vision of it still, but Fabio Kung has a post that clarifies some of the questions. It was written as a response to a post by Gavin King that sparked quite a lot of debate.