Ask HN: What Software Development Methodology do you use in pet projects?

6 points by rfer 17y ago ↗ HN

Dear HN,<p>How do you manage you pet projects? Do you use some methodology even though you're working on your own?

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I try to be agile even when working alone. It certainly makes pairing interesting! I use PivotalTracker to manage things.

megamark16 17y ago ↗

I also try to be somewhat agile maintaining a backlog, tracking bugs and setting goals for my sprints, although my daily stand up meetings are a little...awkward.

paulgb 17y ago ↗

I use TDD, but rather than all-out unit tests I just write doctests. Here's an example of a project created that way: http://github.com/paulgb/tilelife/blob/7e797ac287a91d48276a2...

Tangurena 17y ago ↗

I use CABTAB (code a bit, test a bit). I've tried TDD to learn it, but I find I end up bogged down in tests and end up losing all interest in the project I was originally working on.

abalashov 17y ago ↗

Pet projects are the one refuge I have from "methodologies," my one little corner of the world where I don't have to proactively leverage my synergies and deliver turn-key, best-of-breed cross-platform whiteboard convergence and scalable, clicks-and-mortar enterprise-strength XML deliverables for B2B/B2C WSDL BPEL SOAP that get someone their five-9s ROI.

No methodologies.