Historical errata for The Agile Samurai

There’s an extra space at the end of the second paragraph, second sentence: “It’s no silver bullet .” should be “It’s no silver bullet.”

Paragraph that begins under the Agile Principle, starting with the words “But the real magic . . ” The word “they” is used twice in a row.

Right above Agile Principle. “In short, you let the reigns go and trust and empower them to get the job done.” “Reigns” should be “reins.”

Last paragraph, word “how” should be deleted:
“By the end of the chapter you’ll know how what a typical…”

At bottom of page in “1 relative day ≠ 1 calender day” I believe you should use calendar.

The second to last paragraph:
“But out attitude is we could if we had to.”

Should read:

“But our attitude is we could if we had to.”

Fourth paragraph, second sentence. “Most agile teams starting by…” should be “Most agile teams start by…”

“Unlike [primary competitive advantage].” “advantage” should be “alternative.”

2nd line, need a comma between “are” and “don’t”.

Second paragraph, second word. “analysis” should be “analyst.”

Fourth paragraph, last sentence. “In fact, the hallmark of a good agile PM is one that could walk away . . .” Grammatically “one” refers to “hallmark,” but the meaning you want to convey is that “one” refers to project managers. It should be rewritten as “In fact, the hallmark of a good agile PM is that they could walk away . . .”

“Reigns”, mid-page just above the Agile Principle, “…you let the reigns go and trust…”

I believe was intended to be “reins”

It’s been a while since I’d seen this (or maybe a very similar) stat… the text “By asking our customers to focus only on sometimes, always and often…” is somewhat difficult because it implies that they know what the Nevers will be.
Rather I may suggest to ask the customer to focus on their Always’ and Oftens and REALLY scrutinize the Sometimes As potential Rarely’s because it’s likely that their Sometimes’ will be their actual Rarely and Nevers..

Inside the little picture. “Proudct” should be “Product.”

Sam’s Menu. “1 days” should be “1 day.”

Last sentence on the page. “you don’t them.” The verb seems to be missing.

Top of page. End of second sentence. “you can deliver by deliver by feature set.” Remove “by deliver.”

Third paragraph below the drawing. It begins with “Being flexible on scope . . ” Remove the entire paragraph as it belongs in the next section. In fact you have a slightly different version of it on the next page.

Third paragraph from the bottom, beginning with “Of course, they might turn around . . ” Grammatically, the “they” refers to the last referenced person which in this case is the customer. But it doesn’t seem that the customer is the one who is replacing a team member. More likely, it is a manager on your side.

First paragraph under the box, beginning with “While a really large project. .” Remove the “While.” Using “while” creates a subordinate clause rather than a complete sentence.

@nd bullet in the box. “I awesome work on the print module.” Needs a verb.

Sorry. My last entry (43252) should have said “2nd bullet” instead of “@bullet.”

Now if you are wondering where all the programmers, testers, and analysts are don’t worry—they’re still there.

Comma should go between “are” and “don’t worry.”

The analysis is the relentless detective who asks . . .

“Analysis” should be “analyst.”

5th paragraph, repeated word “they”; “But generally they they set the priorities”

2.2 First paragraph is not well formulated

Paragraph - A few words on language -
Last sentence “one in the same” should be “one and the same”?

At “Inside you are going to learn”
First bullet “.” is missing at end of line. :D

Repeated word ‘software’ in
“For this exercise, imagine your customer walked into your local soft-ware software store and saw your product box sitting there on the shelf.”

‘pf’ Should be “of” if
“everyone can get a clear picture at a glance pf where the boundaries of our project lie.”

2nd last paragraph, just above the bullets.
Repeated word ‘and’ in “started coming out of nowhere and and making ridiculous demands of me and the team.”

2nd last paragraph, ‘with’ should be ‘when’ in “Randy and agile sing from the same song sheet with it comes to sizing up IT projects—the smaller the better”

2nd paragraph: “Only be making them visible, and putting them up where all can see, **will confirm you truly understand that which is most important to your customer.”

‘be’ should be ‘by’

consider rewording this as “will you truly confirm and understand that which is most important to the customer”

Maybe you could mention something about the time overlap when working in distributed teams. What would be the best to look for (as much time overlap, or a few hours). I think it depends on how close the team needs to work together and what there job description is. Of-course when on the job training is needed especially in the beginning it should be very useful to have as much overlap as possible.

Hire the best talent regardless of where it is.When there is less overlap the time with no overlap can be used as “alone time” as everyone needs to finish up things. “Rework - 37signals”

Encourage unplanned collaborations
Last paragraph in the gray box - collaboration ensued - should be collaboration ensured. (‘r’ is missing there)

In the second paragraph “testers are now expected handle the project management” - “testers are now expected to handle project management”

In the fourth paragraph “So how to you get your team to self organize?”
- “to” should be “do”

At the second bullet-point “You worry less about what titles and roles, and more interested” - “You worry less about titles and roles, you are more interested in..”

The hyphenation of ‘arse-nal’ in the para beginning ‘But talking about risk…’ made me laugh, especially given the context, but I suspect you might want to fix it!

In the fourth paragraph “software that you and your team is building is changing their lives” - “is building should be are building”. Also I don’t know if it is a mistake but “These aren’t invisible people in some way off far place” - some way off far place? is it some kind of saying in English?

Cross functional
In the first paragraph “and being able to delivery it fully” should be “deliver it fully”.

The agile customer
“Make tough trades-offs around scope” should be “Make tough trade-offs around scope”?

Suggestion at the fourth paragraph - When issues are estimated and the teams velocity does not allow to add the next highest priority task, an other issue can be chosen to make the sprint (release) planning. When there are issues with high estimation points it should of course be spitted up in separate tasks. For making good user stories - “User Stories Applied - Mike Cohn”

At the 7th paragraph “In early versions of XP this this is referred to…” Twice ‘this’ on a row.

In the penultimate paragraph “they are empowered and willing to make the kinds of decisions that are going to have to be made for the success of the project”

first “kinds of decisions” shouldn’t it be “kind of decisions” except if you mean the different types of decisions they can make.

second “that are going to have to be made…” - “that need to be made…”

In the first paragraph - “the customer would like developed” - something is missing there e.g. “the customer would like to see supported by their software”.

Maybe a stupid thing but perhaps an intended use of pleonasm: “production ready working code” - working code should always be production ready - and code which is production ready should always be working :) (not that it will always be working but thats not the right place to talk about :)).

In the second paragraph “as much I as like the spirit and intent behind the no-formal-role agile team” - “as much as I like” and “intent” should be “intention”?

First bullet point in the gray box.
“this is what am I good at” should be “this is what I’m good at”

Also in the same box first paragraph beneath the bullet points.
“And the results they could be expected to deliver on the project” sounds more like the project is already finished maybe use “and the results they could expect to deliver on the project”?

In the 4th paragraph last sentence “In fact, the hallmark of a good agile PM is that could disappear for a week and no one would notice” does not read very well I think. “In fact, the hallmark of a good agile PM is that no one would notice the PM disappeared for a week” - Meaning that the team is completely independent of the PM input, and the team is completely self organizing.

Just above the “9.7 Kanban” heading: “favor” should be “flavor” (or flavour if you’re British).

All “Deck” variables starting from 2nd example should be de-capitalized -> “deck”

First sentence of the last paragraph, the word “that’s” is repeated. “A medium-sized team that’s that’s a little more spread out…”

6th paragraph (begins with “Look,”) 2nd sentence. Change “done too them” to “done to them”.

Grammar issue - should say “stop” instead of “stopping”. See below:

“The simple fact is that accurate upfront estimates aren’t possible and
we need to stopping pretending that they are.”

“here” should be “hear” in the line “but if you here me say”

In the “Agile customer” diagram, “Makes the tough trades-offs” should be “trade-offs”

Top line of Approver persona. “officer” misspelled as “officier”

the extracted method

private int GetHandValue(Hand playerHand)

should read

private int GetPlayerHandValue(Hand playerHand)

public bool DealerWins(Hand playerHand)
{
return GetHandValue(DealerManager.Hand) >= GetPlayerHandValue(playerHand);
}

missing Player in first call
=> return GetPlayerHandValue(DealerManager.Hand)

“and putting them up for all can see,”
-> for all to see

Very top of page:
To avoid this dysfunction, create a common, shared, language that you and the business share,
The word “share” is used twice and makes the sentence circular. Remove the first “share” so that the sentence reads:
To avoid this dysfunction, create a common language that you and the business share,

In the second Master paragraph, the repetition of the word “root” makes the following sentence circular: “Where reason and logic fail, the root cause is usually rooted in emotion.” Perhaps remove the first “root” so that the sentence reads: “Where reason and logic fail, the cause is usually rooted in emotion.”

Second paragraph from the bottom, first sentence. It reads “Next we are going to look at how to build on our unit tests and do something so critical that were we to some how skip this practice . . .” Change “some how” to “somehow.”

First sentence. “Just like a house with a mortgage, software has debt that continuously need to be paid down too.” Change “need” to needs."

Last paragraph, first sentence. “If this all sounds really cool and powerful that’s because it is.” There should be a comma after “powerful.”

Numbered sentence near the top of page. “1. Are we near the project?” I am assuming that it should read “1. Are we near the end of the project?”

Second sentence after rule #2. “The key word here is possible.” I think you might want to change “possible” to “possibly” since “possibly” is the word that is actually in rule #2.

Sentence in between the two code snippets. “Handing you the keyboard, Eric asks you if he can make the test pass.” it seems that “he” should be “you.” So that the sentence would read “Handing you the keyboard, Eric asks you if you can make the test pass.”

For this suggestion to make sense, you need to understand that I am a manager rather than a programmer, and I frequently function as a client surrogate. Everything up to Part V has been 100% understandable to me. In part V, however, while the key points are still very clear, the code examples are beyond my scope. I understand that I’m probably not the target audience for this book, but I think if you just added a paragraph or so before each of the code snippets that explained what this example was meant to show, it would really help readers like myself. And you might want to explain some general things that the non-programmer might not recognize - like explaining what language this is, etc. If, and I recognize that this is a big “if” in terms of your intentions, you want people like me to be able to follow this part, then you will need to hold our hands a little tighter.

“But those who do make the investment enjoy can turn their projects on a dime, deploy with ease, regularly and confidently make changes to their systems, and respond to their customers needs was faster then their competitors.” Remove “enjoy.” Remove “was.” Replace “then” with “than.” It’s a pretty long sentence. Perhaps it could be split into two.

“Merging some simple edits a couple sentences isn’t too bad.” I think you are missing “to” in between “edits” and “a.”

“It’s when we don’t integrate our changes for extends periods of time that we run into trouble.” I think “extends’ should be ”extended."

“Open source repositories like git or Subversion and your friend here.” Change “and” to “are.” Change “friend” to “friends” so that it agrees in number with “repositories.”

Duplicate word “when when”

That way when when the time comes, you won’t
be complete strangers and they’ll be in a much better position to help
you out.

In the section “Roles we typically see” I think there is a role missing: the Agile Architect (or Tech Lead). His responsibilities should be (among many): Coaching, Checking the big picture, and QA. This kind of role is helpful when the team is mostly composed of juniors or when there is some big enterprise architecture. Also, he should participate in coding and testing since he is not an Ivory Tower architect.

In the paragraph for beta 4, second sentence, you have repeated the word “and”. It currently reads, “… change and and a joy to maintain …”

In the second paragraph of the Acknowledgements, second sentence, it looks like the word “to” is missing. The sentence should read, “Everything quality can be attributed to Susannah Pfalzer.”.

In the third paragraph of the Acknowledgements, first sentence, you have an extra word “pioneering” in it. I believe it should read, “Then there are the pioneering people whose shoulders …”

In the paragraph right before the section titled, “How to read this book”, second sentence, you use the term ux designer. Should the acronym “ux” be capitalized?

In the paragraph after the agile principle, first sentence, you are missing the word “do”. It should read, ““What should I do if I …”.

In the sixth paragraph, fourth sentence, I can’t actually figure out what it is trying to say. “Maybe you didn’t do a good job setting expectations around their involvement in the project means for success.” I think you need to remove the last three words from this sentence.

In the paragraph before the “Cross functional” heading, first sentence, I think you are missing the word “in”. It should read, “… for your team to take a sudden
interest in making sure …”

In the last paragraph on the page, first sentence, there is a missing word “to”. It should read, “In this part, we are going to look …”.

In the second to last paragraph, only sentence, it does not read right and I see two different ways to fix it. You could change the word “what” to “how” so that it reads, “In Chapter 5, Making it real , on the next page we are going to start to visualize how the technical solution for your project is going to look …”. Or you could leave the word “what” alone and add the word “like” after the word “look” so that it reads, “In Chapter 5, Making it real , on the next page we are going to start to visualize what the technical solution for your project is going to look like …”.

In the first paragraph, fourth sentence, you have the word “of” instead of “or”. It should read, “… you would want to choose one or the other …”.

In the first sentence after the “The trade-off sliders” heading, i Think you meant to say “sliders” instead of “slides”. The sentence should read, “The ancient trade off sliders are one …”.

In the second paragraph, first sentence, I think you should use the word “also” instead of the word “too” in order to make the sentence read better. It also looks like you used the word “others” instead of the word “other”. I think it should read, “… there are other forces we must also keep at bay.”.

In the first complete sentence on the page, it looks like you are missing the word “to”. It should read, “… figure out what it’s going to take …”.

On the last bullet point, it looks like the words “is it” are missing. I think it should read, “approximately how much and how long is it all going to take”

In the third paragraph, only sentence, it looks like the word “of” is missing. It should read, “… and some of the challenges …”.

In the first sentence of the page, you have a redundant word “now”. It should read, “as we now know what super fast means”.

In the first paragraph of “Step 4: Brain storm everything else.”, third sentence, there is a missing word “be”. It should read, “All these things and more need to be captured …”.

In the first paragraph of “Step 5: Scrub the list and make it shine.”, second sentence, near the end, there is a missing word “to”. It should read, “… list of things you need to deliver.”.

In the sentence before the line, “IS THIS PROJECT EVEN POSSIBLE !?”, you have the word “are” when you probably wanted the word “our”. It should read, “The only question our upfront estimates …”.

In the first bullet point at the bottom of the page, you have a duplicate word “that”. It should read, “It reminds us that our estimates are guesses.”

In the first paragraph, second sentence, you have the word “starting” instead of “start”. It should read, “If you start building some stories, …”.

In the last sentence on the page, you have an extra word “be”. It should read, “Usually by reducing scope.”. Actually, the last sentence is not a complete sentence. It should be appended to the end of the previous sentence.

In the last sentence of the detail box, you have repeated the words “of time”. It should read, “… we can save them a lot of time and money …”.

In the second paragraph, second sentence, you have an extra word “to”. It should read, “By connecting the dots early, and going end-to-end, …”.

In the first paragraph, second sentence, you have to words “gotta to”. They should be changes to just “gotta” or “got to”. It would probably read better as, “… you’ve got to half the number of features …”

In the first sentence on the page, you are missing the word “to” near the end. It should read, “… guidance in how to organize your iteration’s work.”.

In the text of The Retrospective Prime Directive, you have the word “keew” instead of the word “knew”. It should read, “… given what they knew at the time, …”.

In the next to last paragraph, the parenthetical expression does not read well. It should probably be something like, “(this can be easy to lose sight of when you have your heads buried in your project).” I substituted the words “have your” for “are”.

In the first paragraph, second sentence, there is a missing word “a”. It should read, “There is no Joker card in a Black Jack deck!”

In the first paragraph after the DeckTest.cs code fragment, first sentence, you have used the word “actually” when you meant to use the word “actual”. It should read, “… the above code isn’t the actual code …”.

In the bullet point at the bottom of the page, you have used the word “instant” when you meant to use the word “instantly”. It should read, “… you know about that instantly …”.

In the bullet point under item 4, you have some extra words. You have both, “interesting parts” and “complicated parts”, back to back. You could pick one or the other or combine them into “interesting/complicated parts”. A possible rewriting could be, “… but they free you up to test the other more interesting/complicated parts of your system.”.

In the first paragraph, second sentence, in the parenthetical phrase, you have misspelled “everytime”. It has an extra “h” in it. It should read, “… (as the answer is random and would change everytime).”.

In the third paragraph, last sentence, it looks like there is a missing word, “that”. It should probably read, “Or maybe you’ve inherited some legacy code that is just really hard to test.”.

In the last paragraph, second sentence, you use the word “have” when you probably wanted to use the word “having”. It should read, “… because having that little extra bit of armour …”.

In the third paragraph, first sentence, you have some confusing wording. It currently says, “… you are going to need at least two weeks of just to clean up the existing code …”. I can see two different ways to fix this up. You could add the word “work” so that it reads, “two weeks of work just to clean up”, or you could drop the word “of” so that it reads, “two weeks just to clean up”.

In the second paragraph, last sentence, at the end, it says, “… it’s the cumulative effect that adds up over time and hurts.”. It would probably make the point better and read easier if you replaced the word “and” with the word “that” so that it reads, “… it’s the cumulative effect that adds up over time that hurts.”.

In the last paragraph, second sentence, you have used the word “variable” when you should have used “variables”. It should read, “By choosing well named methods and variables, …”.

In the break-out box for “Refactoring gets a dirty name”, last sentence, you have an extra word “a”. It should read, “… give refactoring a dirty name.”.

In the first sentence after the “What just happened here?” heading, you have a missing word “a”. It should read, “Let’s just stop and reflect for a second …”.

In the third paragraph, first sentence, you have repeated the word “than”. It should read, “… a lot more time in production than in development …”.

In the fifth paragraph, first sentence, you have used the word “enjoy” when I think you wanted to use the word “early”. I think you wanted to say, “But those who do make the investment early can turn their projects on a dime, …”.

In the fifth paragraph, first sentence, toward the end, you have an extra word “was”. It probably should read, “… and respond to their customers needs faster then their competitors.”.

In the break-out box for “Keep it quick”, first paragraph, second sentence, you have an extra word “their”. It should read, “… that everyone started using it to record all their tests, …”.

In the break-out box for “Keep it quick”, last paragraph, third sentence, you used the word “run” when you wanted to use the word “rule”. It should read, “Anything under ten minutes is a good rule of thumb.”.

In the line for point one, you might want to change it from “Get latest from the repository.” to “Get latest source from the repository.”.

In the last paragraph, first sentence, you have an extra word “to”. It should read, “… use it to run the build…”.

In the paragraph after the “That’s all folks!” heading, second sentence, you have extra words “of force”. It should read, “Our tour de force of essential agile software engineering practices:”.

In the sentence before the “Don’t worry about being agile” heading, it looks like you left out the word “one”. It should read, “Oh yeah, and one more thing.”.

The diagram for list item 5 (“You change course when necessary”) has a typo in the top half. “Original pan” should be “Original plan”. Sorry; I know that diagrams are more of a pain to fix than the basic text… :)

To give some more context for errata #44138. The paragraph starts off with, “Now you may be wondering: “What should I if I don’t have an engaged customer?” “. The quoted question, “What should I if I don’t have an engaged customer?”, is missing the word “do” after the first “I” in the sentence.

Also, I appreciate the feedback on the errata that gets submitted. Not all authors do that.

Fourth paragraph: Alight -> Alright

Please consider changing your occurrences of “alright” (there’s one at the start of the last paragraph on page 33, but there are many more throughout the text) to “all right” (which is the correct form). Sorry; it’s a personal peeve of mine.

In the first paragraph (“the agile customer is the ‘source of truth’…”), the smart quote before “source” is reversed (it should point the other way). In other words, the phrase is surrounded by two right quotes, rather than a left and a right quote.

More trouble with leading smart quotes: “self-organize” in the second text paragraph (“…and suddenly telling them they need to ‘self-organize’…”) has a reversed smart quote at the beginning.

In the first sentence of the first paragraph, “Its” should be “It’s” — the apostrophe is missing from the contraction.

The last paragraph on the page (“And they work very closely with the customer…”) has a grammatical or structural mismatch in the three clauses at the end:

- to ensure that what gets built works

- is as simple as possible
- that pushing software live…

You may want to change the second clause by adding another “that”: “…gets built works, that it is as simple…”. This will smooth the way that the sentence sounds…

In the fifth paragraph, first sentence, “sight” is spelled as “site”: “…and never lose site of…”

In the box at the top of the page, the title (“What if you started every project…”) should end with a question mark. Along the same lines, you may want to either end the second paragraph (“Then with this newfound insight…”) with a question mark, or rewrite it slightly, perhaps as two sentences.

In the figure that is a piece of cake and the caption “ummm cake … OM NOM NOM” the word “User” in User interface is misspelled as “Use interface.”

Update the plan as you go, execute fiercely, and use the sense of urgency you’ve been giving…

Should “giving” read “given”?

Thirdly, if you were producing a lot of bugs, you’d want to slow down and find out what was causing so much pain, and take steps fix…

“steps fix” -> “steps to fix”

…(as the answer is random and would change everythime)…

“everythime” -> “every time”

“Eric readily admits, he isn’t able..”

Eric readily admits that he isn’t able…

“…integrate our changes for extends periods of time…”

…integrate our changes for extended periods of time..

“Merging some simple edits a couple of sentences…”

Merging some simple edits on a couple of sentences…

“Anything under ten minutes is a good run of thumb.”

Anything under ten minutes is a good rule of thumb.

“…git and Subversion and your friend here.”

…Git and Subversion are your friends here.

“The next step in is to create…”

The next step is to create…

“the art of simple…”

the art of simplicity…

“actually” -> actual

Just to be clear, the previous code isn’t the actually code we run as part of our Black Jack simulator in production

In the phrase “They will also have in mind the big testing picture and never lose site of load testing …”, the word “sight” is misspelled.

The listing of the tasks the teenager did appears twice, once as a bulleted list, and as regular text right after the bullets.

Excerpt of the last sentence of the call-out box: “which was to simply the invoice and reduce call center volume.”

s/simply/simplify/

In the last sentence of the second paragraph in the callout-box, you are missing the word “pitch”. It should read, “Writing a good elevator pitch can be hard work—but so worth it.”.

The last paragraph on the page has odd wording. It reads:

If there are opensource or proprietary frameworks or libraries you would like to use, you can socialize those (because some companies limit which open source tools they allow).

The word “socialize” seems strange to me. If you mean “discuss” or “talk about”, maybe it would be better to say that.

In the first sentence on the page, it looks like there is an extra word “as” before the word “if”. It probably should read, “… and break them down if and when they come up for development.”.

In the second to last paragraph of section 8.6, last sentence, you used the word “giving” when I think you meant to use the word “given”. It should read, “… and use the sense of urgency you’ve been given to blow through anything standing in your way.”.

The title of the callout box has the word “Oode” instead of “Code”. It should say, “Collective Code Ownership”

In the first sentence on the page, it looks like the word “your” is missing before the word “team”. It should read, “… focused discussions where you and your team regularly get together …”.

In the third paragraph, the one after the bullet points, second sentence, you are missing the word “on” after the word “all”. It should read, “… you are now laying it all on the line …”.

In the paragraph after the figure showing the release wall, first sentence, you have an extra word “track” before the words “keep track”. It should read, “The release wall is where you and the team keep track of …”.

In the paragraph below rule #1, first sentence, you have an extra word “like” after the sords “such as”. It should read, “… (some stuff is just really hard to test first, such as user interfaces).”.

In the first sentence of section 15.6, you have an extra word “in” after the word “step”. It should read, “The next step is to create an automated build.”/

In the paragraph after the title, “That’s All Folks”, second sentence, you have extra words “of force” after “tour de force”. It should read, “Our tour de force of essential agile software engineering practices:”.

Third, if you were producing a lot of bugs, you’d want to slow down to find out what was causing so much pain and take steps fix the root cause
-> insert “to”
“steps to fix the root cause”
-Zach Mason

Illustration with cake says “Use Interface” instead of “User Interface”

Last words on page are “an card”. Probably should be either “a card” or “an index card”

Since the text suggests that constraints be captured on colored cards, it would be nice if the illustration of “a constraint card” could be a color other than white.

“That’s all we are doing we TDD.” under the “What Just Happened Here?” section seems to need a “when” and “do.”

“That’s all we are doing when we do TDD.”

Use of wrong “to” (too) in sentence partway through page. “…the real magic kicks in because of what that leads too” should be “to” not “too.”

Combine is not conjugated correctly for the plural noun activities in the first sentence. The sentence should read “Software is one of those unique activities that combines design…”; not “that combine design…”

List in page top is duplicated

In last sentence of “There Are a Dozen Reasons…” box, it should read “simplify” instead of “simply.”

Collective Oode Ownership -> Collective Code Ownership

The bulleted list at the start of section 1.3 is repeated immediately after the list.

“Only by making them visible and putting them up for all to see will demonstrate you truly understand that which is most important to your customer.” — Should read “will you demonstrate”.

I think “push” should be “pushed” in “this is the code you (ack!) push into production” at the very bottom of the page, since the code is already out there.

You’ve hit the ball out the park! Icnredbile!

the 3rd comment in source code: tdd/src/Deck.sc,
“// … remaining diamonds” should be “// …remaining hearts”.

‘love of my life’.should == ‘love of my wife’

First line on top of page 173:
Collective Oode Ownership
Should be Code not Oode.

Page 21, 22 Repeats the list back-to-back, first bulleted then not:
• Produced a report of how he planned to rake the yard?
• Came up with an elegant design?
• Created an elaborate comprehensive test plan?
Produced a report of how he planned to rake the yard?
Came up with an elegant design?
Created an elaborate comprehensive test plan?

in rename method refactoring source code example(former),
the second foreach variable(foreach (var card in playerHand)) would be wrong.
it should be “foreach (var card in dealerHand)”.

“THEY MAKE BAD GUESS AND FALSE ASSUMPTIONS” I think should be “THEY MAKE BAD GUESSES AND FALSE ASSUMPTIONS”

In user story “Create work permit”, “Test criteria” list, item #4, the apostrophe in “week’s”, appears as a square block. Some sort of special character encoding problem?

In Chapter 4.4 where you talk about the OUT list, the following sentence:
“But for now, we aren’t going worry about it.”
should probably be:
“But for now, we aren’t going to worry about it.”

BTW, the version of my book is 2011-9-15

In my printed copy, there is an iStockPhoto watermark just visible on the image of the Samurai in the sensei conversation bits (for example, page 119, but it’s throughout the book). The iStockPhoto website suggest that the watermarked images should not be used in final versions.

Do you have a licence to use this image? Why are you using a watermarked version?

In section 8.5, the paragraph after the picture of the burn-down chart, second sentence, there is a missing word “after” after the word “remaining”. It should say, “Simply record the amount of work (pts) remaining after each iteration, …”

In the box titled “What If You Weren’t Allowed to Track Bugs?”, second sentence, there is a missing word “to” after the word “able”. It should say, “… because you wouldn’t be able to track them.”.

in the estimation of the eating of the cookies you affix a static time of 10 seconds to eat a single cookie, however when you ask for the extrapolation of the 10 and 14 cookies you include a glass of milk.
When you show your work below you ignore the glass of milk, not to mention any time between cookies for breathing and or just a pause to allow for more saliva etc..
In my estimation you should allow time for the milk not to mention the breathing in between cookies etc..
I dont know if this would subvert your point or not but I calculated a 7% and 15% additional time for breathing / picking up cookie / saliva etc.. and a static 25 seconds for the milk.
I may be being too picky but hey ….

“Asking ourselves what keeps us up and night invites a healthy discussion” should be “what keeps us up at night”

You wrote “Small and Estimatable” inside of second rectangle. “Estimatble” is incorrect and you should change it to “Estimable”.

The sentence “The brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” shouldn’t it be “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”?