In this issue you will find an article on how to measure the progress of your agile projects, a framework for the transition to lean configuration management, practical advice on how to implement retrospectives at the end of you software development projects and a presentation of Microsoft’s Software Factories concept. …
Following a dzone.com link, I reached an article accompanying a presentation made by Joe Rainsberger at the Agile 2007 conference. This article, “My Greatest Misses: XP 2000-2007“, is an honest experience report on the many issues and failures met by Joe Rainsberger as an agile change agent during these years, …
Is your project in an in an agile development context of user stories? Do you want to let developers estimate their work? Then, just play the planning poker. The idea behind planning poker is simple. Individual stories are presented for estimation. After a period of discussion, each participant chooses from …
After participating to and observing many software development projects in recent years, we have reached the sad conclusion that there will never be better ways of developing software on this planet. While the principles of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development may look appealing for inexperienced developers, serious professionals know …
Recent publications of surveys on Web 2.0 usage by McKinsey, The Economist or Forrester Research presents some interesting information on how managers and CIO see the new technologies that have conquered the Web these recent years. Let us look at their content before trying to analyse what they could mean. …
In the recent years, the agile development approaches have been gaining more and more interest and acceptance in software development organisations. This has been a rapid adoption for ideas that were formalised in 2001 with the signature of the Agile Manifesto by a group of software development thinkers. The basic value …
