WHICH DEVELOPER ARE YOU?

Of course, while the pragmatic programmer is enjoying a nice diner at 8PM, his automated build is running at work for him, building, testing, measuring the code, measuring the test coverage, generating documentation and providing fresh and complete feedback for the next morning.
Isn't it just great to know someone safe is working for you while you enjoy your time?

A PRAGMATIC DAY

This is a drawing I use to explain what an ordinary pragmatic day is for an agile developer.

TEACHING

I've just started to teach software engineering to a class of last-year engineering students.
As Chad Fowler puts it in "My Job Went To India":

When you teach, you have to answer questions that may never have occurred to you. Through teaching, we clean the dusty corners of our knowledge as they are exposed to us.

SHORT DAILY TEAM MEETINGS

We are again practicing short daily focused team meetings.
We have them in the team office, in front of the big workflow kanban chart.
It enables us to feel the rythm of daily work and avoid those tedious and boring long weekly meetings.

CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION

I use this drawing to explain how developpers contribute to the common code base (under version control) which is continuously monitored by a build machine, delivering feedback to developpers and managers on the state of the code base.

CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION = CONTINUOUS FEEDBACK

I use this drawing to explain that the build machine delivers continuous feedback on the state of the common code base. The feedback may be a website and e-mail notifications sent to developpers and managers.

CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION = STOP-THE-LINE

This drawings helps me explain how continuous integration providing continuous feedback helps to implement a stop-the-line culture in the development team.
When a change is detected in the common code base, an automated build is launched. If the build fails (compilation errors, test failures or whatever is important for you) the build machine sends failure notifications to the development team. Their job is to correct the problem NOW!