Reloading the Shotgun Project Ron Jeffries 06/05/2007 Distracted by the Style and Grace planning and other things, Chet and Ron have been away from the Shotgun...
End to End, or, Another Run on the Hamster Wheel of Life Ron Jeffries 06/07/2007 Our tests run, the code structure is good, yet we are not entirely happy....
Hi Ron, Chet, These articles are marvellous - if (or especially) when you're not enjoying them too much...! ... I was never sure why you jumped straight to...
Calling the Shot Ron Jeffries 06/11/2007 In which our intrepid heroes leap fearlessly directly into a flaming pot of YAGNI. Will they surface? Will they be...
Ljutic Mono Gun Ron Jeffries 06/12/2007 We move forward incrementally, improving the report generation by adding new paragraphs, observing missing ideas, and...
Per Kroll and myself have been working on describing a collection of practices for a lean approach to governing software development projects. The first of ...
Further Report Refactoring Ron Jeffries 06/14/2007 With a little time on our hands, we make our sketched story run and smooth out the code. Generality is...
In an Agile Journal article Liz Barnett writes about using Agile in other aspects of the business outside of IT. Instead of asking "why," companies are asking...
Kevin Parker takes a look back at one of my favorite "I Love Lucy" episodes to see if we can learn a little about how to agile software development from TV. An...
Selecting a test automation tool has always been a daunting task. Let's face it, just the thought of automating tests can be daunting! To avoid that...
Current agile methods could benefit from using a more quantified approach across the entire implementation process (that is, throughout development, production...
Despite a prevalent industry perception to the contrary, the agile practices of Test-Driven Development and Continuous Integration can be successfully applied...
Hello, One of the most important non-functional characteristics frequently required by business applications is performance. Recently, my team and I had worked...
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My own two cents: with the possible exception of velocity, quantitative measurements are typically misused or of little value. While everything is in theory...
Hi This is Tarun here. I am taking part in the Barcamp Pune3 and wanted to collaborate with someone who knows about agile methodologies. I checked the campers...
... True. I'm facing a related battle at work. I'm sure we'll all agree that all optimizations are a trade-off. When you're optimizing for one measure,...
The Agile Modeling list (agilemodeling@yahoogroups.com) might be a good place to start a conversation about business analysis. You might find it useful to...
Hmm. It seems you all are asking for more numbers that reinforce how well you are running the system. That would seem to be counter to the focus on agile to...
... You misunderstand. All I'm saying is of you are going to expend energy tracking, and place faith in, a metric, make sure you are not optimizing that...
... Yes, unless you are measuring all critical dimensions, optimizing a metric will almost invariably lead to dysfunction. Often measuring all critical...
... I dunno -- Agile feels more opinionated to me than you seem to suggest here. Lots of customers want an up-front GANTT chart and volumes of architectural...
On the subject of metrics and sub-optimization: Robin Dymond and I created a worksheet for thinking about metrics, which includes things like "balancing ...
The results of DDJ's 2007 Agile Adoption Rate survey are summarized at http://www.ddj.com/dept/architect/200001986?cid=Ambysoft I've also posted supporting...
A new item has been posted at InfoQ.com which might interest you: Interview: Little and Spayd on Agile and Organizational Change By Michael Spayd and Joe...
A new item has been posted at InfoQ.com which might interest you: Presentation: An Introduction to Agile Leadership By Tim Lister June 28, 2007 Tim Lister...
A new item has been posted at InfoQ.com which might interest you: Book Excerpt: Scaling Software Agility By Dean Leffingwell April 19, 2007 "But does Agile...
A new item has been posted at InfoQ.com which might interest you: How To: Live and Learn with Retrospectives By Rachel Davies May 31, 2007 Traditional SDLCs...
A new item has been posted at InfoQ.com which might interest you: "Real Options" Underlie Agile Practices By Chris Matts and Olav Maassen June 08, 2007 Whether...
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