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Knowledge Management: It's All About Granularity

In my pursuit of the ideal collaboration platform, I’ve tested a few knowledge management systems lately: Knowledge Plaza, Seemy, a combination of...

0 replies - 768 views - 11/12/09 by Sebastien Arbogast in News

Process Not Working -- Must Have More Process

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 - 803 views - 10/28/09 by slott in News

Breaking into Agile

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 - 550 views - 10/22/09 by slott in News

UML failed so here we have AML (Arbitrary Modeling Language)

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 - 1574 views - 06/11/09 by nealford in News

Agile Architecture or Accidental Architecture

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 - 3551 views - 05/13/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News

8 must read papers for project managers

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 - 2472 views - 04/03/09 by arnonrgo in News

Agile Methods - Delivering Software Faster

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 - 3834 views - 03/16/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News

Big Teams & Agility - Take 2

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 - 2328 views - 03/12/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News

Internal & External Releases

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 - 1467 views - 02/18/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News

Video: Breaking Brooks's Law

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 - 2918 views - 10/11/08 by Rich Sharpe in News

Agile Project Status Reporting

A little while ago I wrote about agile project management and how agile

0 replies - 3500 views - 09/02/08 by Kelly Waters in News

Incremental Migration

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 - 2036 views - 08/22/08 by martinfowler in News

Evolving Architectures - Architecture Retrospective

Retrospectives, every "agile" team does retrospectives.What are retrospectives anyway?A retrospective is a meeting where the team takes a look and...

1 replies - 4332 views - 08/13/08 by arnonrgo in News

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: #5 - Big Design Up Front

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 - 2565 views - 06/24/08 by vpartington in Articles

Book Review: The ThoughtWorks Anthology

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 - 4681 views - 06/11/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews