April 2007 - Posts
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The April issue of the CM Journal , and there is a FANTASTIC article in it by Austin Hastings about his Longacre Deployment Management strategy for dealing with database CM. It's long, but well worth the read for the insight into a new way of thinking...
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Lately I've been spending some time thinking about how distill Agile development within my company on a single powerpoint slide for a top-level Executive. I keep going back and forth between something that shamelessly steals (and modifies) something...
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Nice article on Defining Design Quality at InfoQ.com . The article heavily references the work of James Shore , who is currently working on a book with chromatic entitled " The Art of Agility ". It has a pretty nice definition of design quality...
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My paper in this month's issue of The CM Journal is about Lean-based Metrics for Agile CM Environments . This month we take an "Agile" slant on metrics for CM, including the CM process itself. Agility is supposed to be people-centric and...
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Joe Little has authored a nice little booklet on The Elements of Agile Style Read More...
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The March issue of the Agile Journal is about scaling-agility and agile adoption in the enterprise. Read More...
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The March issue of The Rational Edge and the April issue of Crosstalk are both devoted to the the theme of Agile Software Development this month! Read More...
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The folks over at SmartBear software have written a nice little book entitled The Best Kept Secrets of Code Reviews . It's free if you go over to their webpage and ask for it (you have to fill out a registration form, and it takes a few weeks to arrive...
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Dean Leffingwell , previously known for his book Managing Software Requirements: a Use-case driven approach has just published a new book entitled Scaling Software Agility: Best-Practices for Large Enterprises . He also has a corresponding Scaling Software...
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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...
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In October of last year over at DevX.com , Rod Coffin and Derek Lane wrote a darn good article (in two parts) that gives a nice, concise overview of seven agile methodologies: An Overview of Seven Agile Methodologies -- PART 1 An Overview of Seven Agile...
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There are a lot of REALLY GOOD manifestos over at ChangeThis.com ! Back in May 2006 I blogged about Simplicity in Design and included several links/resources on the subject. Turns out ChangeThis.com has a few good manifestos on the subject as well (and...
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