Software Best Practices

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 more than just the code/codeline (and it being...

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 that: The core issue with the business of software...

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 value-driven. So any metrics related to agility should...

Every January at CMCrossroads.com the CM Journal focuses on CM predictions for the coming year. My contribution for this year is Agile SCM January 2007 - Looking Back to Move Forward where I reflect on the previous two years' predictions and update them just a bit, with lots of emphasis on Rational...

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, etc.) in some form or another. Note that there...