Awesome post from Ted Neward: ...warning that the Java community got itself into trouble (and continues to do so to this day, IMHO) by building abstraction layers on top of abstraction layers on top of abstraction layers, all in the name of "we might want or need to change something... someday". It was this very tendency that drove many developers to embrace YAGNI (You Ain't Gonna Need It) from the agile/XP space, and remains a fiercely-debated subject. But what concerned me was the reactions of...
Yes I’ve been evaluating agile project tracking apps / solutions. Kind of painful to tell the truth. One major problem I have is that my team is not truly XP or Scrum – we are pretty agile but we do (for various regulatory purposes) insert non-agile principles into our processes. I often joke that we are more nimble than agile. I think our team does a serious kick-ass job with what we have to work it is sometimes hard to squeeze our process into a tool meant for XP or Scrum. The other...
[from this post: A Metric Leading to Agility] Nearly every metric can be perverted, since up- and down-ticks in the metric can come from good or bad causes. Teams driven by metrics often game the metrics rather than deliver useful software. Ask the team to deliver and measure Running Tested Features, week in and week out, over the course of the entire project. Keeping this single metric looking good demands that a team become both agile and productive...
I’ve always considered myself lucky that my career is my passion. I LOVE being a geek. via:David J. Anderson Last night I met Curt Rosengren who calls himself a passion catalyst at a book tour party for Gus Lee author of newly published Courage, organized by Lisa Haneberg, a fellow Seattlite and author on management topics - of which much more in another post after I've read the book. Meanwhile, Curt helps clients to connect their careers with their passions to make themselves a lot happier...
Looks like a follow-up to the book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers is in the works: Lean Software Development: An Implementation Guide
Dave Churchville writes: [from this post: Agile Project Planning: Web-based Acceptance Testing Done Right] The Selenium project (sponsored by ThoughtWorks) has been quietly making an in-browser automated testing facility. It just went from interesting to compelling with the introduction of Selenium IDE, a free Firefox extension that lets you record, script, save and execute in-browser acceptance tests.This is exciting… I’ll have to check it out soon! (Tags: agile, testing, Selenium)...
Project? Yuk! I have not had a chance to look at this yet – so this is not a validation of the content. I mostly just wanted to blog the link for future reference. [from this page: Download details: Project 2003 Tool: Scrum Solution Starter] Project 2003 Tool: Scrum Solution StarterBrief DescriptionThe download includes the project template and source code for the COM add-in for Microsoft® Office Project Professional 2003 or Project Standard 2003 that enables the Scrum methodology of Agile...
First of all I’d like to wish everyone out there in the metaverse a prosperous 2006. 2005 Time flies, or does it?. It seems that just yesterday we were ringing in 2005 yet I am hard pressed to remember what happened in 2005. If it was just yesterday shouldn’t I remember it well? Anyway… here is a brief list of my personal hits and misses and keywords of 2005 and a brief list of goals for 2006. Hits: Brenda became pregnant – IVF worked on the first try. Bargelt 4.0 is due...
Nice article on things that can trip up your agile efforts. [via: On Be(come)ing Agile: 5 stumbling blocks for new corporate agile projects] 5 stumbling blocks for new corporate agile projectsA colleague and I were talking today about an organization that's getting started with Agile. This organization is struggling because they're missing many of the basic building blocks that Agile techniques leverage. Since Agile is a great way to reduce waste, improve quality, and increase throughput, many large...
[via: Ohad's Weblog] The lecture titled ‘Moving towards Agile Project Management’ gave a great intro to agile project development. If you weren't able to come to the lecture… I've video taped it for you and yep the lecture is in English! The lecture slides are available from Roy’s Team Agile site over ‘here’The first part is available ‘here’ The second part (hat simulation) will be available later this week...
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I’m trying to bide my time until I get my XBox 360 – found this in a search. Interesting open workspace… very collaborative / agile! Damn… makes me want to get my Certificate in Game Programming from the University of Washington. [via Mat Noguchi - Developer on Halo team gives tour of Bungie] Mat Noguchi is a developer at Bungie. Don't know who they are? That's the Microsoft group that developed Halo 2. Halo 2!We get the first tour of Bungie's new offices. He talks about...