...of iterative and incremental methodologies collectively known as Agile. They rely on generalists — programmer/analysts who might not be quite as good as business analysts are at talking to business...…
Excellence is fragile. Dumb mistakes, in contrast, are more durable than Kevlar. It’s a universal law. For evidence, look no further than Microsoft Outlook. Try this: Go to July 4th....…
...Wikipedia cites this as an example of English pronunciation being a kludge. A kludge is an inelegant and fragile solution to an engineering problem — a bag stuck with chewing...…
...how they improve them. It’s a fundamental — and widely held — misunderstanding of CMMI. Bob: In his 2005 interview, Capers Jones was openly dismissive of Agile and similar adaptive,...…
The subject is strategic change. The question, posed last week, is whether we can lichen business change to Agile software development — whether we can devise an Agile Business Change...…
...Highly Original Thoughts: To those who have been living in a cave on Mars for the past decade, that is, and therefore haven’t noticed that agile, adaptive methodologies long ago...…
...Spear’s “rabbits” are high velocity in very deliberate ways that have an entirely different tone from Hugos’s differently-successful agile businesses. The rabbits get better and better at what they choose...…
...minor one, but a role nonetheless, and it might surprise you: Switch to Agile methodologies. More specifically, switch to methodologies that require a high degree of direct interaction between programmers...…
...services, and The Cloud. We used to have feasibility, requirements, external design, internal design, construction, testing and roll-out. Now we have Agile, and I can’t keep track of all the...…
...demonstrably because the near-universal pre-waterfall outcome was stable, tailored-to-the-business, feature-rich applications, unlike waterfall, with its notorious 70% across-the-board failure rate. Isn’t it interesting that when you read the Agile Manifesto,...…