Software Best Practices

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 to express (reveals all intent and intends all...

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...

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.

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...

From Pete Behrens' Agile Executive Blog , the results to the Agile Tooling Survey they conducted in October are now available online at http://trailridgeconsulting.com/surveys.html : With over 500 survey responses from 39 countries, we feel this survey provides an excellent benchmark for where the...