'agile' Category
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Practical Software Development
Summary of the panelists’ points of view on “Practical Software Development”, and some of the key audience questions at the Feb. 16, 2010 meeting of the Eastern NC chapter of the IEEE Computer Society (surprise audience member: Dr. Frederick Brooks!)
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IEEE news - Feb. 2010
If you’ll be in the Raleigh area on Feb. 16, 2010, come to the IEEE Computer Society (ENCS chapter) meeting! Andy Hunt, Bob Galen, and I will be discussing “Practical Software Development”.
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trying Toobla
Recently I heard about Toobla and thought I’d give it a whirl. So far our new Agile Teams toobla library has only a few simple folders: one for agile, one for GSD (global software development) to organize our blogs, links, etc. Toobla CEO @blinkdaddy kindly sent me a suggestion to check out @bblanquera’s very nice […]
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RE09 keynote on agile and requirements
Dave West gave the opening keynote speech today at RE09, titled “Delivering Business Value with Agile Approaches to Requirements”. The keynote description had definitely caught my attention, and I confirmed in a quick chat right before his talk that Dave was fresh from the Agile 2009 conference (he was sporting his Agile Alliance/Rally logo’d lanyard).
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agile tweets
see http://twittgroups.com/group/agile
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measurement and agility
I learned this week, thanks to a LinkedIn notification about a colleague’s change of position, that Rally Development recently acquired 6th Sense Analytics. I’m excited about the potential synergies that may come from this merger of agile and as-light-as-possible measurement, and plan to follow them closely via the Rally agile blog.
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agile management tools
Even the most agile project likely uses some kind of tools - index cards, whiteboards, etc. I recently checked out a few agile project management tools to help me with a small, but globally distributed, project. (Without continuously-on high-powered video support across the oceans, whiteboards and index cards are just too hard for everyone on […]
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growth
This blog has been quiet for a while, partly due to a shift in employer focus away from coaching agile, TSP, and CMMI, and towards research in requirements engineering, technology evaluation, and software architecture. I’m delighted to be reviving this blog now with the addition of new topics (including QFD, ADD, AHP, PrIME) and an […]
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visualizing agile projects
I found this article today via the crystalclear list I follow: http://www.infoq.com/articles/agile-kanban-boards
Several of the described information radiators will already be familiar if you’ve been following agile. The most novel - one I have no choice but to love - is the “Smiley Calendar” Seriously, getting feedback on team morale this way seems like a […] -
refactoring your wetware
Tonight I attended an excellent ARTp (Agile RTP) session featuring Andy Hunt of Pragmatic Programmers, on “refactoring your wetware” (improving your brain; topic of his upcoming book which is ‘in beta’). Well attended, and very enjoyable.
