Software Best Practices

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.

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 Rally Software Development and the author of Collaboration...

My review of Lean Project Management is in the February 2008 issue of the Agile Journal. Lean Project Management: Eight Principles for Success , is actually a second edition of the eBook Eight Secrets to Supercharge your Project with CCPM . It is available both in hardcopy and eBook formats. Lawrence...

Regarding my previous posting about Software KanBan , much as I really do like it and have nothing but the utmost respect for the likes of Corey Ladas and David Anderson, there is one major quibble I have with some of the stuff being said ... I think all the stuff saying it is Iteration-less and Iteration...

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 a KanBan System for Sustaining Software Engineering...

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 Agile) An interesting read!!!

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 the publications yourself. I took an initial pass...

Design for Trustworthy Software is a rather impressive tome that comprises a compendium of the latest and greatest methods, tools and techniques for system and software design applied to software. It covers Design for Six-Sigma (DFSS) techniques, TRIZ, Taguchi Methods, Quality Metrics, Poka Yoke, 5S...

I reviewed the book Lean Software Strategies for the June 2007 issue of the Agile Journal . Lean Software Strategies seems to be one of the first books specifically about applying Lean principles and techniques to software development that is not written by the Poppendiecks . When the book first came...

Good point David: [quote user="David Harper"]The worse possible outcome, which I've seen many times, is you will get a requirement given to you that technically isn't feasible or even make sense. [/quote] This goes to the point I raised earlier that the requirements consumers (e.g....