January 2008 - Posts
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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...
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The November 2007 issue of the CM Journal was devoted to the theme of " What Best Practice is Best? " Joe Farah's article on The Top 10 SCM Best Practices was quite possibly the best article on SCM best practices that I've come across...
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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...
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Several years back there was an interesting open-source Eclipse project named " Stellation " at www.eclipse.org/stellation. It was to be an advanced/modern version control tool with lightweight branching and support for fine-grained checkout...
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I am still amazed at the number of software managers who are unfamiliar with "The Mythical man-month" lesson that says (paraphrasing here) adding more people to a late project makes it even later. So I decided to round-up some resources on the...
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Eric Raymond , famed OpenSource co-founder and Unix guru, author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar and The Art of Unix Programming , is currently working on a draft of a work entitled " Understanding Version Control " It is an interesting read...
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My review of The Art of Agile Development is in the January 2008 issue of the Agile Journal This is an amazing book! The Art of Agile Development is nothing less than 10+ years' worth of agile development experience distilled into a single compendium...
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After my previous long-winded entry about " What do you wish your CEO knew about Agile? ", I came across this Forrester report on " The Truth about Agile Processes " It has a summary of what CEOs/CIOs and managers need to know are...
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Esther Schindler has been posting on a number of different Agile-related groups & forums asking participants the question: If you could get the boss to understand one thing, just ONE THING, related to Agile development... what would it be? Why that...
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During my hiatus from this blog since the summer, I still managed to keep up with a few of my book reviews for The Agile Journal . Here they are (with hyperlinks) ... Flexible Development: Building Agility for Changing Markets by Preston G. Smith published...
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I'm back! My apologies for the six month hiatus since my last blog-entry. I spent most of the latter half of 2008 being thoroughly enmeshed in a "death march" project at work (as compared to the "near-death march" project I worked...
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