Software development quotes
A few years back, I was working with an organization where teams were achieving the expected increase in velocity, but leadership didn’t feel like things were moving any faster. Selecting one team, we looked at their history and found that their velocity had gone from an average of about 20 …
The most successful transformations I have experienced—the ones where you walk into the office and there is a tangible difference in the energy and interactions between people, where the commercial and management stakeholders are as excited and invested as the technology stakeholders, where everyone agrees on the metrics that matter …
Something that I’ve learned from other experienced coaches like Michel Céré is that when working with people, one of the best ways to help them to grow is to become their mirror. Mirroring other people’s behaviors will reflect to them what is potentially invisible to their eyes and maybe will …
When they don’t have an automated suite of tests acting as a safety net, the programmers may start viewing the testers themselves as a safety net. It’s easy to imagine that Joe Programmers’s thought process goes like this: “I ought to go back and add some automated unit tests for …
Agile does not mean delivering faster. Agile does not mean fewer defect or higher quality. Agile does not mean higher productivity. Agile means agile – the ability to move with quick easy grace, to be nimble and adaptable. To embrace change and become masters of change – to compete through …
No matter how hard you try, an occasional defect will escape to production despite your best efforts. Ideally, this is a rare event. When it happens, the defect is likely to be a devious problem that causes strange things to happen in other systems you didn’t know about during development. …
