Software development knowledge and experience report
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, …
Martin Fowler defined refactoring as a ” disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior”. In the days of Agile development where code is delivered after one or two week cycles, you start quickly to deal with “legacy” code, what …
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 …
In the television world, experts track criminals using DNA found on the crime scene. Luckily we don’t have serial killers in the software development world, but we have what I will call “serial developers”. If I had to “profile” them, I would say that they are often young, having recently …
