April 2009 - Posts
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Since I blogged about a couple books on this subject I wanted to give a few other resources as well. First off, the reason I came across these resources is because back in January I participated in a discussion with Jim Coplien , Diana Larsen , and Doug...
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Last time I blogged about Stephen Covey's The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything (see www.speedoftrust.com ). I have a few other books about trust on my bookshelf, including: Trust and Betrayal in the Workplace , by Dennis &...
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I read Stephen Covey's The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything (see www.speedoftrust.com ). I listened to it on audiobook during my commute a few months ago and parts of it definitely struck a chord with me. I like how he described...
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We saw in the previous blog-entry several definitions of the Business Agility Cycle . We also mentioned that in order to derive the Software Agility Cycle from this, we needed to explicitly include more close collaboration. The Software Agility Cycle...
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Continuing the " What is Agility? " series of posts ... we have looked at business agility and how it combines with the "people factor" from the agile manifesto to yield software development agility . So now that we know the meaning...
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In Part 1 of "What is Agility?" we looked at numerous definitions and descriptions of business agility . The overwhelming majority of them had the following elements in common among their descriptions: Agility means swiftly sensing and rapidly...
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My review of Robert Martin's (and the rest of the folks at ObjectMentor ) book Clean Code: A Handbook of Software Craftsmanship was just published in the April 2009 issue of the Agile Journal . Robert ("Uncle Bob") Martin and the folks at...
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Jeff Langr and Tim Ottinger have a pretty sweet and useful "gig" going on at The Agile In a Flash project , which will "result in a book and replenishable deck of at least 52 flash cards." I made a suggestion to them late last week...
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Kicking off my series of posts on the subject of " What is Agility? " is this first posting on Business Agility, and how agile methods got its name from those roots... Some of you may already know that before Agile methods used the word "Agile"...
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I'm involved in an Agile adoption effort that has done of lot of communication as of late. And one of the things we always cover in any intro training is the question " What is Agile Software Development? " Our standard answer and presentation...
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I must apologies to my readers of this blog (or at least whomever is left). I haven't blogged in 9 months. I became heavily immersed in an agile adoption effort that had just managed to succeed in getting the senior-most management fully bought-in...
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