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In 2007 my colleagues at Construx Software and I updated the list of classic mistakes from my 1996 book Rapid Development . Throughout 2007 we conducted a survey to determine the frequency and severity of these classic mistakes. In other words, we wanted to get a more quantitative sense of just how "classic"...
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Many people worldwide have watched the film “The Secret”. It highlights the “law of attraction” and how powerful and essential it is to personal achievements. It teaches how essential it is to set clear end state goals, and how, just by setting them,...
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Peter Eeles and I must be subconsciously on the same page. Because at the same time I was blogging about Software Architecture Views and Perspectives and Software Architecture Quality Attributes and their direct applicability to SCM/ALM solution architecture...
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I just received an advance copy of Programming Groovy from the Pragmatic Programmer's Bookshelf . This complements their work that came out last month on Groovy Recipes . From the Programming Groovy book webpage: Groovy brings you the best of both...
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My review of Outside-In Software Development is in this month's edition of The Agile Journal . Kessler and Sweitzer's Outside-in Software Development should resonate deeply with all those who genuinely value the principle of customer collaboration...
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Extending the analogy of software architecture views and quality attributes for software process architecture , I'd like to spend some time discussing how software product lines relate to software process architecture and "common processes"...
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Some guys at Stanford invited me to speak at their EE Computer Systems Colloquium last week. Pretty cool, eh? It was quite an honor. I wound up giving a talk on dynamic languages: the tools, the performance, the history, the religion, everything. It was...
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To add to the already stellar list of participants for our event I confirmed today that Dale Christian , CIO at Avanade will participate in our CIO Panel Session, and Alan Shalloway of Net Objectives will join our Think Tank / Open Space sessions as a...
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We have opened up the registration for the APLN Leadership Summit in Seattle on July 17-18. Register now and get the early bird special price of $300. We have a fantastic program lined up and a uniquely collaborative conference format. Key note speeches...
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Short of time, want to get right to it. We have designed some workshops just for you and your group. An excellent alternative if you want Tom and me to visit your organization for a day or less. Check them out at Knowledge Transfer Kai Add your comment...
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Tom , this is such a waste as (only) a personal response. I encourage you to post this in our blog so more people can enjoy it. Kai On 5. mai. 2008, at 23.05, Tom Gilb wrote: On 5 May 2008, at 18:23, Clarke Ching wrote: Great! Here's my first few...
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http://www.gilb.com/community/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=183 Is David Rico's EFFECTS OF AGILE METHODS ON WEBSITE QUALITY FOR ELECTRONIC COMMERCE and http://www.gilb.com/community/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=182 has MAPPING AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT...
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Well it looks like TriFork and Accelinnova have struggled to fill the room in San Francisco for Monday's Leadership Summit event. If you'd like to meet me in person and ask me anything about Agile Management, Kanban, MSF CMMI, FDD, or what we're...
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It was seven years ago today when everybody was getting excited about Microsoft's bombastic announcement of Hailstorm, promising that "Hailstorm makes the technology in your life work together on your behalf and under your control." What...
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"We're going to get lynched, aren't we?" — Phouchg And you thought I'd given up on controversial blogs. Hah! Preamble This must be said: Jamie Zawinski is a hero. A living legend. A major powerhouse programmer who, among his many...
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I recently switched to using OS/X full-time for all my client-side computing. Still using Linux on the backends, of course, at home and at work, but I now use Macs for my client machines. I'm not a Mac fanboy. I'm sort of a wannabe Mac fanboy...
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On Behalf of a long time Mulit-national Client, we have been rethinking our syllabus for teaching requirements. It will come as no surprise to those who know us well. But I thought I would share it. If you have any suggestions, questions, or would like...
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Continuing the previous discussion on software product-lines ... Central to the notion of product-lines and product-families are tracking and managing three different kinds of software assets: common/core assets that are shared by all the products in...
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A client of ours asked us to develop a Master Class in our specialty - Quality Quantification. You might be interested in seeing our ideas of how to teach this subject in more depth than we can usually cover in more general elctures and more general Requirements...
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Extending the analogy of software architecture views and quality attributes for software process architecture , I'd like to spend some time discussing software product lines . According to the SEI website on software product-lines , A Software Product...
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Steve McConnell put up a post on his lack of a real estimate for a child's fort and how that was related to a software project. I have a similar example of an agile bathroom remodel. The Story Our existing bathroom had a small problem. Water was leaking through cracks somewhere in the older tile...
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In some of the early Theory of Constraints literature Eli Goldratt would talk about three types of bottleneck - capacity constrained resources (CCRs), policies and [research what the third type is.] In recent, years he changed his mind and simplified...
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How do you identify a bottleneck in a kanban system? For the last 5 years, I've been teaching teams to identify bottlenecks using Cumulative Flow Diagrams (CFDs), Figure 1. A growing gap shown as a bulge in a colored section of the graph indicates...
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The next podcast is up . Today we talked about why we're doing a podcast in the first place, took some questions/suggestions from listeners, and got into a fight over whether programmers should learn C. Guess which side I took. There are some improvements...
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Below is information about 6 days of 1 day seminars in London: In addition we have our usual invitation only annual seminar last week June - this time on Risk. We already have a great set of contributors coming - but room for interesting experts - talk...
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