It's photo time! I just remembered that I've still got some photos I hadn't uploaded from the camera to the computer and, while doing just that, I thought I'd share some of the photography extraordinaire with you.

First, a little something that got me smiling big time when I saw it and understood that it wasn't a joke... The grim talking stick for Scrum meetings.

The rest of the photos I wanted to share are from a two-day TDD class I ran recently together with Bas. Appropriate for a test-driven development training, the whole thing took place in a high voltage test area.

The TDD class in question consisted of a little talking and a lot of exercise. A specific thing we tried and found working quite well was what I hereby dub group pair exercises. What it means is that we split the group (7 people) into two groups, carried two projectors into the classroom, and had the groups go at the exercises two at a time on the two projectors beaming at opposite walls of the room.

The original idea was to have the whole class split to two groups and each group into two or more pairs, and then have only one pair from each group do a specific exercise on the projector while the others are observing. The idea was to facilitate opportunities for the participants to make use of both in-situ learning as well as the wider perspective of being able to follow someone else solve a problem and learn to test-drive.

Overall, we were very happy with how this approach worked with that particular group. Although the idea of having just one pair eventually faded away as people just couldn't sit back and just observe... I guess we managed to put together interesting enough problems for the exercises.

Speaking of exercises, probably the most interesting one from my and Bas' perspective was a legacy code exercise which involved extending Cobertura's instrumentation module.