Product Managers often forget that they can make or break a project. If your team is using Scrum that is even more true, because Product Managers are (or should be) involved regularly in the planning of the work with the team. Either as Product Manager or in the role of Product Owner. It is therefore …
The folks talking about CMMI and Scrum are dangerous! Not the least of which because they miss some of the most basic points about software development! You would think they would know about software, but you would be wrong! Check this out: In an article about CMMI and Scrum the site ExecutiveBrief (go there at …
If you do Twitter you probably know exactly what I’m referring to, if you don’t here’s an article you should read. Together with @most_alive and @Mendelt we just coined a hash tag to aggregate discussions about the cost of quality in software development. The hash tag is #swquality just add that to every tweet that …
The fallacy of perfection = expensive has many forms. Two of which I just run into in the blogosphere. What is this fallacy? Simple, you say to yourself: “perfection in software development is way to expensive, therefore I should not even try to achieve it!”, but that’s a false problem, because perfection is only expensive …
Talking to a friend we were discussing the organization of feature teams in a local company. They were previously organized in component teams, which led to a lot of inefficiencies and disconnected work. This happened because one team would only work on one component, and when one feature required work in many components, that feature …
I was reading Jason’s blog when I came across this post. I could not agree more. Way too many times I bump into problems that can be traced directly to the idea that you can hire just anyone, with any skill level and they will perform to the expected level of professionalism. This is pure …
While discussing with a colleague we started talking about the costs related to not fixing a bug immediately (yes, this does mean that you have a way to immediately figure out if you introduced a bug). The reason for fixing bugs immediately is not only the cost of content switching later on when you have …
First one clarification. Testing is needed, required, critical and very much a MUST. With that out of the way let’s go to the post. Many people have mentioned the need to include testers in Scrum or agile, and planning your processes with a testing step somewhere (normally close to the end). All of these ideas …
Apple had a considerable amount of credibility when they started they iPod “offensive” some years ago. So much credibility that people were willing to overlook critical customer-back stabbing such as the iTunes being DRM ridden, the iTV (ooops, apple TV) being more expensive in Europe even if there’s no content for it at all in …
In the spirit of Lean my colleague and friend Mika Pehkonen writes how they are able to respect people, get them to do what they are best at and most motived to do. I’d say that’s a win-win-win situation! we pay our translators by the hour, not by word count. This means that the translator …
