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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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Nice little guide on InfoQ.com about Distributed Version Control - that's twice in two months that the " agile " section of InfoQ.com has had a decent article on the subject! Read More...
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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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Getting back to the subject of my previous blog-entries on Software Architecture Views and Perspectives and Software Architecture Quality Attributes , I wanted to talk more specifically about the quality attribute of Modifiability . The Modifiability...
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A colleague of mine had a question for me about Distributed Versions Control Systems (or DVCS). There are a growing number of such systems these days: Mercurial , Bazaar , git , svk , BitKeeper , Gnu Arch , darcs , Monotone , Codeville , Arx , just to...
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Following on to my previous blog-entry about Software Architecture Views and Perspectives , the book " Software Architecture in Practice " also describes a method called Attribute-Driven Design or ADD. This is not yet-another-design-method like...
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I'm fairly interested in the literature on Software Architecture Views and Perspectives. Folks here may remember by work on Dimensions and Views of SCM Architecture as one of the reasons why ... The text of the entire 2nd edition of the " Software...
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For those who haven't been keeping up with "Agile 2.0" or "Post-Agile", one of the more recent developments has been KanBan for Software Development. I first heard about it from David Anderson in a presentation he gave at 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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The November 2007 issue of the CM Journal was devoted to the theme of " What Best Practice is Best? " Joe Farah's article on The Top 10 SCM Best Practices was quite possibly the best article on SCM best practices that I've come across...
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A couple months ago I stumbled across the MIT Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI) website at http://lean.mit.edu It is a veritable goldmine of papers and research relating to lean product development and lean systems engineering. You can search through...
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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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[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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Joe Little has authored a nice little booklet on The Elements of Agile Style Read More...
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The March issue of the Agile Journal is about scaling-agility and agile adoption in the enterprise. Read More...
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The March issue of The Rational Edge and the April issue of Crosstalk are both devoted to the the theme of Agile Software Development this month! Read More...
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Interesting paper from Linda Levine and the SEI about Reflections on Software Agility and Agile Methods: Challenges, Dillemmas & the Way Ahead (see the corresponding presentation slides ) Some other related documents from the SEI are: Systems of Systems...
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In October of last year over at DevX.com , Rod Coffin and Derek Lane wrote a darn good article (in two parts) that gives a nice, concise overview of seven agile methodologies: An Overview of Seven Agile Methodologies -- PART 1 An Overview of Seven Agile...
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There are a lot of REALLY GOOD manifestos over at ChangeThis.com ! Back in May 2006 I blogged about Simplicity in Design and included several links/resources on the subject. Turns out ChangeThis.com has a few good manifestos on the subject as well (and...
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In an earlier blog-entry reviewing the book Code Craft , I mentioned the classic paper by Peter Miller entitled " Recursive Make Considered Harmful " ... Anyway, I recently ran across a bunch of webpages that examined or revisited the issue...
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I came across a great set of responses to an IEEE Software Article by Ted Little that seemed to question the cone of uncertainty. Among the respondents were Phillipe Kruchten and Steve McConnell. This prompted me on a search for resources about the cone...
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Happy new year to all! I thought this would be appropriate for my first blog-entry in 2007 ... Here are my top 10 blog-entries of 2006. This is based not on hit-counts, but rather on reference counts (number of mentions in other blog-posts, forums, articles...
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