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Essays from September 2007
6 essays from September 2007
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Why do teams slow down?
So, here you are. You just joined a team, you’re the third or fourth member to join and you feel good. Your team follows an Agile development method. You churn out new functionality and customer-value at the end of every iteration and things could not go any better for you. The product sells, the team …
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Time is up for middle age conceptions of software development
Sometimes it takes time for the full understanding of reality to fall on us. Scratch that. IT ALWAYS TAKES TIME, many times it takes too much time. David is contributing to shorten that itme in at least one item: the road is over for super-specialists in the software industry. You can and should still be …
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Agile brings organizational changes…
David has a good analysis of one the most clear consequences of going Agile. Once the development bottlenecks are solved, the bottleneck moves elsewhere, and in many cases it moves to the organizational structure: read it here.
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Agile implemented with (real) roller skates
Martin Fowler has a great example of what an agile mind would think of to deliver customer value much sooner than what people would normally think. Great example of what the Agile values are about!
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Joel on Software gets close to “a universal truth” software development
The important phrase is at the end of this paragraph… Wow, That’s really on the spot. That’s exactly the same time we saw at our company (average of many projects) a validation/testing/debuging phase takes… when you use waterfall!!!! Lately we’ve got the period from “last feature added” to “release” in a lot less time (no …
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Nokia’s “door” (Ovi in Finnish)
I can’t believe it! How can someone be so ignorant so out of touch with reality so complete absorved on their own petty little half-monopoly to have no clue whatsoever about what makes a web service usable, cool and desirable? Have you checked out Nokia’s Ovi (door in English)? talk about a crappy user experience. …
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