Software Best Practices

[quote user="Steve McConnell"]XP done right requires quite a lot of discipline[/quote] Amen! I introduced XP into a company I worked for a couple of years ago. At first, all was great. It was fun, we delivered great software, and we learned a lot (like pair programming is really hard and exhausting...

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: Scaling Up the Development Process ; by Watts...

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 of uncertainty. Here is what I came up with: The...