Software development knowledge and experience report
Code reviews and software inspections have existed for a long time in the software engineering world. They have been however only adopted by a minority of software development projects. Programmers have always been reluctant to submit their code to the criticism of their peer. The pair programming technique promoted by …
In the preface of his book Essential Scrum, Kenneth Rubin writes “giving a new Scrum team just The Scrum Guide and expecting good results would be like giving a new chess player a 15-page description of the rules of chess and expecting her to be able to play a reasonable …
Software architecture is a key factor for the sustainability of software applications. If you are developing software that need to evolve or scale, you will find below some articles published in 2012 and that will provide you with interesting knowledge on various aspects of software architecture like Cloud, SOA, web …
In the past 30 years, the hardware infrastructure that supports software applications has changed many times. At the beginning were the mainframes and the minicomputers, highly proprietary hardware with dumb terminals in front of the user. With the arrival of the personal computers, developers started using the power of the …
Surfing on the web I find sometimes things that I consider funny and that make me think. This was the case when I discovered a page about the Agile Project Management Approach on the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) web site. I was initially confused, because the CMU hosts also the …
According to current surveys, Agile software development is now implemented by a majority of organizations and Scrum is the project management framework the most widely used in these companies. The reality of the Scrum implementation could always been discussed, but one of the main characteristic of Scrum teams is that …
