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Essays from October 2006
5 essays from October 2006
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Another interesting Agile Finland Seminar
Yesterday another Agile Finland seminar was held in Helsinki. There were 3 speakers and the guest star of the day was Tom Gilb. Tom has been working in this field for many years and pitches himself as a precursor of the agile movement. He mentions “iterations” as something that he popularized in one of his …
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Best practices are not the best at all!
I sometimes get tired of listening to people talk about best-practices, and today is one of those days! Deming a long time ago started pitching the idea of continuous improvement, back when the Japanese were the only ones willing to listen to him. In his now famous “plan-do-study-act” cycle (PDSA) he popularized the feedback and …
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A Seminar about Agile implications for old-school project managers
On November 14th, 2006 I’ll be speaking at a seminar about the implications of Agile on the lives of old-school project managers. The old-school project management is still probably the widest used approach to software project management and I tried to explain it’s core values here and here. My talk in the seminar will focus …
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Is the military getting “software development” ?
James Bach is a well known test specialist that has espoused Agile software development since the beginning. Even though the testing community is still searching for consensus (which may not even be a good thing) James is definitely quite ahead of the pack. His latest post on testing in the military is very “to the …
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Reducing waste
Tim Ottinger has a very good observation on his site about the importance of reducing waste and the difficulty of achieving it through Agile in organizations that are just starting. ‘Nuff said. Agile software development is all about eliminating collateral effort. No unnecessary documents, no unnecessary meetings, no unnecessary code, no unnecessary anythings. The mantra …
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