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I'm going on some long needed (and hard earned) vacation. I won't be blogging again for about one month (so this will likely be my only entry for July). I've got a lot of REALLY GREAT and interesting books to try and catch up on. I hope to...
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Some of you may be aware of Kent Beck's Four Rules of Simple Code that state simple code: Correctly runs (and passes) all the tests Contains no duplication ( OnceAndOnlyOnce and The DRY Principle ) Clearly expresses all the ideas/intentions we needed...
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The agile community has written much about this in the past year or so: Iterative vs Incremental - from the first (and original) Wiki Web The Neglected Practice of Iteratation - by Jeff Patton Difference between Iterative and Incremental Development Read...
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InfoQ.com summarized an email-list discussion thread on the subject of using a Traceability Matrix in an Agile Project . I contributed quite a lot to the thread, and InfoQ apparently included many of the key things I said along with the related URLs to...
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Some of the discussion with my co-authors on our May 2008 CM Journal article on Agile Release Management spurred some additional thoughts by me that I hope to refine and work into a subsequent article later this year. Release Management is about so much...
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My Agile SCM co-authors Rob Cowham, Steve Berczuk, and myself have written an article for the May CM Journal on An Agile Approach to Release Management We're relatively pleased with the article, and all collaborated together quite well. Read More...
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My review of Jim Brosseau's Software Teamwork: Taking Ownership for Success is available in the May issue of the Agile Journal . It is nothing less than outstanding! I found Software Teamwork to be an immensely helpful, intensely practical, profusely...
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I recently learned that Michelle Sliger , author of the wonderful 4 part series of articles on Relating PMBoK to Agile Practices , is co-authoring a book with Stacia Broderick entitled the Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility . You can even...
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I received my program for the Better Software Conference & Expo this coming June 9-12 in Las Vegas (alas, I will be unable to attend). The description for the keynote that will be given by Jean Tabaka caught my eye. Jean Tabaka is an Agile Coach from...
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Extending the analogy of software architecture views and quality attributes for software process architecture , I'd like to spend some time discussing how software product lines relate to software process architecture and "common processes"...
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After my previous postings on Software Architecture Views and Perspectives , Software Architecture Quality Attributes and Software Modifiability Tactics , the question remains as to what all this has to do with Agile processes or with CM. Well, about...
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After my previous postings on Software Architecture Views and Perspectives , Software Architecture Quality Attributes and Software Modifiability Tactics , the question remains as to what all this has to do with Agile processes or with CM. Well, about...
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Marry Poppendieck gave a keynote at SQE's Agile Development Practices Conference during the last months of 2007. The slides for that presentation are now available online. The presentation is entitled Welcome to the Mainstream (and How to Fail with...
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My review of The Art of Agile Development is in the January 2008 issue of the Agile Journal This is an amazing book! The Art of Agile Development is nothing less than 10+ years' worth of agile development experience distilled into a single compendium...
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After my previous long-winded entry about " What do you wish your CEO knew about Agile? ", I came across this Forrester report on " The Truth about Agile Processes " It has a summary of what CEOs/CIOs and managers need to know are...
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Esther Schindler has been posting on a number of different Agile-related groups & forums asking participants the question: If you could get the boss to understand one thing, just ONE THING, related to Agile development... what would it be? Why that...
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During my hiatus from this blog since the summer, I still managed to keep up with a few of my book reviews for The Agile Journal . Here they are (with hyperlinks) ... Flexible Development: Building Agility for Changing Markets by Preston G. Smith published...
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xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code, by Gerard Meszaros (Addison-Wesley Signature Series, May 2007) is nothing short of FANTASTIC! As I'm reading through the book, I keep saying to myself "Yes!" and "Aha!" over and over...
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I'm behind in a lot of reading and am finally catching up. As a result I be blogging a LOT about books this month. I have all of the following books (most of which are brand spanking new) that I'll be trying to blog about this summer: Lean Software...
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[updated June 1, 2007] CMMI on the surface is definitely not very inviting to Agile. CMMI can be done in an agile fashion however. If CMMI is something you have a need for, then for secrets of how to do it "Agile-style", and details of success...
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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...
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[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...
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Lately I've been spending some time thinking about how distill Agile development within my company on a single powerpoint slide for a top-level Executive. I keep going back and forth between something that shamelessly steals (and modifies) something...
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Nice article on Defining Design Quality at InfoQ.com . The article heavily references the work of James Shore , who is currently working on a book with chromatic entitled " The Art of Agility ". It has a pretty nice definition of design quality...
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My paper in this month's issue of The CM Journal is about Lean-based Metrics for Agile CM Environments . This month we take an "Agile" slant on metrics for CM, including the CM process itself. Agility is supposed to be people-centric and...
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