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Essays from March 2006
6 essays from March 2006
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Agile shifts the economics of software development
I often hear this argument about “re-engineering” also known as “refactoring” in Agile circles: […] it is difficult to justify work that doesn’t bring any added value or whose results cannot be measured to evaluate the _immediate_ outcome. As a software development manager, I’ve been also on the side of “there’s no justification for re-engineering, …
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Builds should never fail! (for long…)
After arriving to work and checking my e-mails I decided to check in on my previous team’s results on the continuous integration system. Guess what? The build had been broken for 10 days! Continuing to develop on top of a broken build is dangerous as typically an error in the build process hides several other …
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How others see Agile/Scrum
In our company we have been going through the agile development transition for 1,5 years. The most interesting part of this transition is to see people’s reaction to the change. Certainly there are negative reactions (a lot) mostly due to lack of understanding or not being able to adapt to a new way of working …
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More Microsoft on Agility
This is one of the 3 (only 3!) points that Kevin Johnson, head of the “Platforms & Services Division” at Microsoft sent in an internal memo. You can read the whole article here. “3. Agility: Lay the foundation for accelerating our pace of innovation, including focusing on ways to improve clarity of decision making, drive …
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Agile Seminar: Team building in Agile projects, Part I
Last week there was the Agile Seminar here in Helsinki. During my talk I promised that I would make the content available so here we go. During the talk and through a story that I told at the start I tried to illustrate the first Agile value. I slightly changed the it’s phrasing from “Individuals …
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Agile Seminar in Helsinki
Last evening (March 17th) we had the third Agile Seminar arranged by Lasse Koskela (correction: I should also mention that many other people were involved in the organization of the seminar, indeed they were, and a big thanks to them also for this great event!) Three talks, one of them by yours truly (The role …
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