Software development knowledge and experience report
Who are software developers working for? This can be considered as a simple question and you might start with some simple answers like “for company X” if you are an employee or “for myself” if you are freelance. If you work as a consultant or an outsourcer, you could also …
The Cloud approach is gaining ground in organizations as the new standard for IT infrastructure. We mostly see it in its “public” version with offers like Amazon Web Services, Cloud Foundry or Windows Azure. There is however also the emergence of “private” clouds that are operated inside organizations. The Cloud …
On page 483 of their book ” Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development“, Craig Larman and Bas Vodde discuss about the quality of code and certification, mainly in within the CMMI context. They refute the link between good code production and certification and wrote “Do not believe that an …
Recently somebody asked on a forum “when is Scrum not working?” This lead me to the question “when is a project successful?” Traditionally, you can measure the success of a project by checking the respect of the scope, schedule and budget at the delivery of the application. In this situation, …
We are celebrating this year the tenth anniversary of the Agile Manifesto. As Agility has become popular in software development organizations, you can see more and more material about the fact that Agile has “lost its soul”. People would be more “doing Agile”, that is following “blindly” some routines, than …
Many of us might think that software is a technological industry. Maybe. But maybe not. If you consider the biggest organizations that sell software tools like Oracle or Microsoft, I suppose that few of us would consider them as technology leaders, but we will all recognize their financial strength and …
