Gunjan Doshi

For the members of a XP team, pair-programming serves as a key source of continuous growth. Everyday, there is something new to learn from your partner. For example:
Rather than using Eclipse or Visual Studio.Net for previewing single files, I used Textpad ocassionaly. Overall, I was happy with Textpad, except for its weird key bindings like:
F5 [...]

An agile team will setup, just the minimal infrastructure, required by the stories in the current iteration. For e.g. unless, there is a story that requires persistence, there will be no database setup; an IOC framework will not be put in place, because, it is the latest cool thing and everyone is talking about it. [...]

Last week, I visited a software development team at a major financial firm. They get audited frequently and have to adhere to strict SEC regulations. They have to keep track of every defect that gets generated, the impact of the defect and all its history.
This is how they fix defect:
1. The QA team has [...]