May 2007 - Posts

• Five R's of Agile SCM Baselines

  Almost a year ago I posted an entry on the " 5 C's of Agile SCM Codelines ". This time I'm posting on the 5 R's of Agile SCM Baselines . I think these are as follows (note that most of these are not unique to Agile/Lean): Repeatable... Posted May 28 2007, 05:01 PM by Brad Appleton's ACME Blog Filed under: CM, Build-Mgmt

• Software CM is Not a Process!

  The (hopefully) provocative title of today's blog-entry is inspired by Phil Armour's essay " Software is Not a Product! ", which is one of many profoundly insightful essay's from his book The Laws of Software Process . Armour maintains... Posted May 18 2007, 07:20 AM by Brad Appleton's ACME Blog Filed under: Design/Arch, CM, Agile

• BOOK: Release It!

  I just received a copy of " Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software " by Michael Nygard . This looks to be yet another winner from the PragmaticProgrammers ' Pragmatic Bookshelf. In fact it made #1 on Amazon.com's "Hot... Posted May 08 2007, 07:36 AM by Brad Appleton's ACME Blog Filed under: Design/Arch, Books

• Lean Software Development Resources

  [last update: 27-April-2007] For a colleague at work, I compiled a list of resources covering Lean principles & practices, their integration with Six Sigma and/or Agile development methods, and the application of Lean to software development. I thought... Posted May 08 2007, 07:19 AM by Brad Appleton's ACME Blog Filed under: Agile, Books, Links, Management, Lean