Lava Lamp with CruiseControl

As we are getting Phoenix project under way, I am trying to get it started right by introducing more XP practices. The first three things that we are trying to do are Paired-Programming, Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration.  This blog, is about Continuous Integration.
Actually, Guidewire has already built an internal tool, ToolsHarness, to handle continuous [...]

Pair-programming

Pair-programming is not a common practice at Guidewire right now.  I hope one day more people at Guidewire can agree with this post.
http://www.nomachetejuggling.com/2009/02/21/i-love-pair-programming/
Right now, we are trying it out at Phoenix project.

JIRA Story Wall

With the “shared dashboard” feature of JIRA, we have been experimenting a shared dashboard that can be served as a virtual story wall that can be useful to us. And here is one version.
AF stories are in the form of JIRA items, in this way, JIRAs created by other teams for bug fixese or [...]