Starting next week, my company, Rally Software, is hosting a series of free webinars around Agile Software Development to include speakers such as Mike Cohn,...
Dear Colleagues, I am a seasoned executive and a management consultant with 20 years of Information Technology experience across Financial, Healthcare, ...
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The following course will be offered in San Jose on November 8 and 9. Implementing Lean Software Development Long feedback loops are the biggest cause of waste...
To "Amplify Learning", Mary Poppendieck suggests in her book, on page 46: "If strata teams work for machine interfaces, consider them for user intefaces also. ...
FYI - for those who are interested, the article just appeared online at: <http://www.cmcrossroads.com/article/34375> Portions of this were discussed at one...
... Thanks Alistair! I had some similar feedback from Scott Ambler as well. I had actually meant to use a different graph. I have since updated the article to...
... Wow - thanks! Yes - it my own. I slaved away in powerpoint over the course of a week until I arrived at something that came close to what I wanted. I'm...
Hi Brad, I belevie there is a mistake on that grafic... The Depth-First decision making approach should refer to Waterfall Lifecycle. So you need to invert the...
... I guess it depends on how you draw it :-) In my case, since I drew the waterfall model with phases as rows, the waterfall model is breadth-first because it...
To me, breadth first means delay irreversible decisions until the most knowledge is gained. Depth first means make detailed decisions early, thus casting them...
Brad, ... I understand what you mean but I think it could make things get confused. As I understand, those terms are already used meaning: Since waterfall...
... I guess I don't understand why that is considered "depth" rather than "breadth". if it tries look at everything in the current level before proceeding to...
the waterfall graphic needs a Time arrow. ditto for i/i graphics (whose arrow 90 degrees rotated compared to the waterfall arrow.) ... -- C. Keith Ray ...
I did some research and "Googling" over the weekend to try and solve this mystery of why my understanding of the meaning of depth-first seems to be different...
To confuse the issue, I am going to add a different set of terms: Set-Based design and Point-Based design. In Set-Based design, you determine the boundaries...
... Your suggestion troubles me. From a theoretical perspective, it seems to *presuppose* an overall architecture with defined layers, which rather ruins the...
Dominic, I agree with your thought about GUI development... But refering to security, I actually believe some architetural decisions are more expansive to...
Well, you have some good points, but I am not sure that I would want to put a user interface into production until its central concept was more or less in...
... I don't think this statement should be generalised. After all, humans are capable of being extremely adaptable. Most of my experience has been with users...
You are absolutely right Dominic, there are plenty of times when users can accept change and are interested in it. I was suffering from thinking of a specific...
... Okay. I'm somewhat familiar with the two (partly from your book :-) ... Thats interesting because when I read your first paragraph above I was thinking...
So after "mentally masticating" on this a bit more, I think I can perhaps succinctly summarize the difference between what I described as "depth-first" and...
What I conclude from all of this is that depth-first and breadth-first are dangerous metaphors, since they can be interpreted exactly the opposite way ...
This coming week on December 3rd at 11am MT, my company, Rally Software, is offering the final presentation in our series of free webinars around Agile...
On February 25th at 9 am MT, my company, Rally Software, is offering a free 2 hour seminar in Denver, CO. covering best practices for transitioning project...
I finally got around to starting a blog. http://bradapp.blogspot.com (OR http://blog.bradapp.net) I'll be ruminating regularly about agility, configuration...
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