Agile
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Programs and Technical Debt
Once you have a program (a collection of interrelated projects focused on one business goal) and you have technical debt,…
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Why Does Management Care About Velocity?
I’ve been talking to people whose management cares about their velocity. “My management wants us to double our velocity.” Or,…
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You don’t need Testers – Or do you?
I talk to a lot of people in both big and small software development organizations about how they manage software…
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Infrastructure, Technical Debt, and Automated Test Framework
I’ve had several conversations in email and with clients recently that have all been about this question: “What do we…
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Software Engineering needs leaders, not ScrumMasters!
I recently reflected on SCRUM and the role of the ScrumMaster. We know that a ScrumMaster should act as a…
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Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams
I’ve been working with geographically distributed and dispersed teams for the past couple of years. Some of them on quite…
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That’s Not Agile!
If you work with a bunch of agile minded developer’s, you often hear the phrase “That’s not Agile!” It’s quite…
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Agile’s Customer Problem
Agile methods like Scrum and XP both rely on a close and collaborative relationship and continual interaction with the customer…
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Playing around with pomodoros
Over the last 3/4 months I’ve been playing around with the idea of using pomodoros to track all coding/software related…
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