Agile Coach Failure Modes
I have just finished reading the book “Coaching Agile Teams” by Lyssa Adkins. This book is full of excellent content but I just want to share some of her honest thoughts on coach failures with you.
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Software development quotes
Agile Software Development Adoption Obstacles
I have just started reading the book “Succeeding with Agile” by Mike Cohn. Here are some quotes from the initial pages that deal with the difficulties of transitioning to Agile. “I’ve personally witnessed several failed agile adoptions that could have been prevented. The first was in a company that had …
Lean: Results are not the Point
I have just finished reading the great book “Leading Lean Software Development” by Mary and Tom Poppendieck and I wanted to share with you two quotes excerpted from it. […] I started a conversation with the question that had been bothering me: “How do you reconcile the lean view that …
How Do You Refactor Untested Code?
I am currently reading the excellent “Debug It!” book written by Paul Butcher and I wanted to share with you some of the little gems that I have found in it. “Bug fixing often uncovers opportunities for refactoring. The very fact that you’re working with code that contains a bug …
Changing Perspectives
“In the early days of our industry, programmers wrote in assembly code, selecting registers in which to place variables and managing memory explicitly. If we had magically provided these programmers with a Smalltalk compiler, they might have asked, “How does this help us select registers? How do we allocate memory?” …
You Are the Raw Material of Software Development. Are You Good Enough?
The end of the year is a time where you do some cleaning. During this activity, I found an old issue of IEEE Software where I had noticed an article as a source of interesting software development quotes about people issue. As New Year is also the time to take …