Tag: agile
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Agile fails quickly if you don’t follow the practices.
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Vibes, Code, Consequences
A selection from my weblog and elsewhere since last time… Original content Whitney goes to KubeCon – a cross-over episode from SDT: “This week, Whitney Lee joins us to discuss KubeCon news, Coding Assistants, and conference tips. Plus, vegan food and note-taking recommendations.” What is a platform? – Tony and I start a new weekly,…
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Tasktop Sync 3.5 adds Agile & devops integrations, foreshadowing an ALM system of record (451 Report)
Version 3.5 of TaskTop is a dot release with some fun stuff scurrying around in the background. Here’s the 451 Take: Tasktop has done well in recent years as a pragmatic way to connect together disparate silos in the application lifecycle development space. The approach Tasktop is taking to better unify the process of getting…
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ING infects Capital One with Agile
When Capital One started to roll out agile development in 2011, Wolfs said it amounted to just one percent of software that was delivered. Today, 85 percent of software is delivered by the agile method. With agile, Capital One now also releases approximately 400 product releases a month, has cut delivery times to three to…
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Extreme Programming, 14 years later
[F]ourteen years ago it was wildly controversial. Indeed, it was so controversial that whole books were published describing how this couldn’t possibly work, and how all the proponents were knuckle-dragging, money-grubbing, nitwits who never wrote a line of code in their lives and…. Extreme Programming, 14 years later
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You go to war with the knowledge you have
“Managing the incompleteness of communications” is core to mastering agile software development. —Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game (2nd Edition) I recall reading the first edition of this book years ago. Man, that was fun.
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http://www.parleys.com/share.html#play/514892280364bc17fc56c04f Pragmatic Cloud Computing, or, Dealing with Morlocks, or, Agile Infrastructure – a talk I gave at Devoxx 2010, pleasantly early in cloud, DevOps, and such to be nice and squishy. See slides here as well. (Source: http://www.parleys.com/)
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"Rewriting" Calcified Code Without Collapsing the Tower
Someone complains that members of his team are patching code instead of improving it, and therefore Extreme Programming isn’t “scalable”. The fact is, this lesson about the inappropriate use of “patching” is something that needs to be learned even if the team isn’t doing XP. If it is doing XP, they are going to learn…
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Can I Use the Word "Agile" Enough?
Zane’s post on the negative effects of personal motivations on software development reminded me of Cockburn’s discusion in Agile Development on the same topic. I went a-Googling for a write up, or summary of what was in the book. The closest thing I found was this, but the rest seemed like slim pickins. However, as…
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