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by unclebobmartin 4586 days ago
Nimi, to be clear, I did not define agile; I simply collaborated in the effort that defined it.

In one post Robin2 described the course as OO, in another he described it as "C++". Those are two different courses so I'm not sure which it really was. However, back in those days we always did a brief lecture on TDD, as well as several other disciplines such as pairing, refactoring, etc. I was not at the class in question so I cannot comment on precisely what happened; but in general we tried to cover the bases of the various agile disciplines as part of any class we taught. Our customers knew this, and understood the implications. Object Mentor was, after all, the first and foremost of the Agile Transition companies. So all our courses had that flavor.

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I see, thanks for clarifying. Actually sounds similar to a course I'm teaching at my university - supposed to be an "advanced C course for EE" (whatever that means), I threw in a bit of "intro to agile", what little I can try to teach from my limited experience (obviously Object Mentor is/was much better equipped for doing that type of thing). In a few weeks the reflection documents will be due and I'll know if it worked... :-)