Hi, welcome to my website.
I'm Duncan Pierce. I help companies improve their software development capability through my company Amarinda Consulting.
My interests include Extreme Programming and Agile Software Development, strategic organizational software reuse, better tools and programming languages and emergent phenomena in software systems. You can take a look at the projects I'm involved in and read more about me.
I hope you enjoy the site and get something useful from it! Let me know what you think.
Below are the latest posts.
New website
I’ve just deployed a new website over at amarinda.com. The old one was pretty tired-looking — I think this one is a big improvement. I still need to upload details of quite a few training courses, workshops and descriptions of the coaching and mentoring I provide, but it’s a good start.
Churchill on Agile
25 April 2008 - 4:36pm — Duncan Pierce
I discovered this list of quotes by Winston Churchill. Churchill had a way with words, so I picked out a few quotes that seem to say something interesting about Agile development.
On feedback:
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Simple Javascript inheritance that works
9 October 2007 - 9:12am — Duncan Pierce
Javascript is a prototype-based language which has some slightly unusual semantics if you are used to languages like Java and C#. Classical OO inheritance isn’t trivial in Javascript – at least not conceptually. There are many webpages out there out there offering various solutions. Many of them propose complicated and strange answers to the problem, when actually it’s pretty simple.
Extreme Tuesday Club moves home
The Extreme Tuesday Club (XTC) has moved to a new home at the Counting House, 50 Cornhill, London EC3V 3PD — another Fuller’s pub. We’ve been at the Old Bank of England for 8 years now and felt it was time to try somewhere new. For those of you at XPDay this year, this was the pub we were at on Tuesday night.
Agile Business Conference 2007 summary
5 October 2007 - 1:00pm — Duncan PierceThis is the second time I’ve attended the Agile Business Conference (ABC). The first time was ABC’s inaugural year of 2005. I had some misgivings about the direction ABC was taking in 2005, but based on attending this year I think some things are improving.
Strongest XPDay programme ever?
The XPDay programme committtee met last week and in a very well organized (by Angela Martin) meeting we agreed what I think is the strongest programme we’ve yet seen at the conference — more sessions, more tracks, more diverse topics. Keep an eye on the website for the full programme announcement.
