After all, programmers are all lazy and stupid.Got his complaint recently."Developers on a fairly routine basis check in code into the wrong...
1 replies - 662 views - 10/28/09 by slott in News
I had a recent conversation with some folks who were desperate to
"processize" everything. They were asking about Scrum Master
certification and what...
0 replies - 443 views - 10/22/09 by slott in News
UML is a failure. It failed for several reasons. Mainly, it failed
because it falls into the cracks between technical people (developers,
architects) and...
5 replies - 1543 views - 06/11/09 by nealford in News
Architecture is an overloaded term these days, and one that is not
always easy to define. There's also a myth surrounding architecture and
agile methods - some...
1 replies - 3463 views - 05/13/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News
I decided to do another article collection post. As I mentioned in the last post that
I am extremely busy these days as we're preparing to launch the...
0 replies - 2394 views - 04/03/09 by arnonrgo in News
A core tenet of agile methodologies is to help teams deliver software more quickly. But with the plethora of agile practices available to choose from, teams...
1 replies - 3746 views - 03/16/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News
In Big Teams & Agility, I talked about a macro process for agile development on large teams (those up to, possibly exceeding, 100 developers).
1 replies - 2284 views - 03/12/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News
A recent post on InfoQ discusses a two part article
by Israel Gat that argues in favor of internal vs external releases by
decoupling the engineering aspects...
0 replies - 1441 views - 02/18/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News
Fred
Brooks’s law of adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
is one most of us have tried to prove wrong... and failed!
I was at Agile 2008...
2 replies - 2883 views - 10/11/08 by Rich Sharpe in News
A little while ago I wrote about agile project management
and how agile
0 replies - 3430 views - 09/02/08 by Kelly Waters in News
Like any profession, software development has it's share of
oft-forgotten activities that are usually ignored but have a habit
of biting back at just the...
0 replies - 1996 views - 08/22/08 by martinfowler in News
Retrospectives, every "agile" team does retrospectives.What are retrospectives anyway?A retrospective is a meeting where the team takes a look and...
1 replies - 4255 views - 08/13/08 by arnonrgo in News
A few days ago Rik de Groot discussed pitfall #6 - which means we've now passed the halfway point of SOA Pitfall countdown! Let's quickly move on to #5.
0 replies - 2521 views - 06/24/08 by vpartington in Articles
Solving the Business "Last Mile". This essay is written by Roy Singham, and Michael Robinson. As many of us have seen in the software industry, there are many challenges which remain during...
0 replies - 4643 views - 06/11/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews
One of a frequently encountered question in enterprise software development is where does the hand off happen from the architect (who design the software) to...
0 replies - 651 views - 06/09/08 by riho in News