Actually all we care about.

Mary Poppendeick is a legend. She's got a fantastic paper about team rewarding, But I've just been reading her paper about lean thinking. "Wow John. Lean's so old now its in a nursing home." but hey I've just Mary's principles of lean thinking. Its nothing new if you aren't  on the agile slug trail but i kinda missed it.

So for everyone else;

here's what you are doing.

YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME
Mary and some guy from japan have noticed that:

The Seven Wastes of Software Development

Overproduction = Extra Features

Inventory = Requirements

Extra Processing Steps = Extra Steps

Motion = Finding Information

Defects = Defects Not Caught by Tests

Waiting = Waiting, Including Customers

Transportation = Handoffs

Can you see this in your organisation?

Nobody cares about agile but you

A poem :
I remember when I was concerned when agile was something that 'hippies did' (& me). I remember when people thought that agile meant no docs. I vaguely remember the acceptance. i don't remember the corporate adoption. I remember the scrum certification. I remember that now that the literati accept agile as a given. I remember moving jobs to an agile organisation. I remember how nothing had changed. I remember how this was not agile. I remember how we can do better. I remember the alt.net implosion. I remember the bright days of dev div. I remember the betrayal of people's hard work.  I remember getting my team to think about objects. I remember to get them to think about tests. I remember just writing code. I remember loving results. I remember loving the problem I remember  loving quality. I remember evolving design. I remember just wanting to make things better. I remember the stand ups, I remember the cynicism. I remember the hope. I remember the break through. I  try. We improve. we improve.

ORMs

There has been a backlash against ORMs. I missed it. While you were all messing around with Nhibernate. I avoided it. Why? because I can always write database queries much easier in SQL.

Always.

My mappings were much better when I mapped in with NH. I've always worked in smaller teams and much of the code has been written procedurally.

There I said it.

But this is why I like ORMs... because over several years into .net people are still writing procedural code. For the first time people were forced to think about domain objects.

and now we have EF. Ef is now getting people to think code first. (Wow welcome to the 1980s)

and now we have stuff simple.data.

ORMs were supposed to remove the impedance mistmatch between tables and code. This has only been solvee if your forward generate.

For those of us with legacy systems  all this backwards mapping is too much of a ball ache.
minimilist web frameworks don;t help and this is why I'm writing crap like SQl.data.
We don't need to worry what to call our call because its the name of the entity. we don't need to worry about joins because its the best SQL we can write.

Lets not worry about the mismatch because we can do what the devs did in the 80s. We write the best DSL to query data evar. S Q L.