The Meaning of Agile Certification is Money
Published January 9th, 2012 Under Software Development | 2 Comments
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 appraisal, rating, or certification in any process improvement model – including Scrum, agile methods and ISO certification – means much of anything, other than the ability to somehow pass an appraisal at least once.”
Although I usually agree with them, I would disagree on this point. Certification has its meaning. And this meaning is money. Certification has become an important business and this is why you have so many “independent” professional associations that now provide some type of certification. In the Agile project management world, you can be
* a certified ScrumMaster from the Scrum Alliance
* a Professional ScrumMaster from Scrum.org
* a PMI Agile Certified Practitioner from the Project Management Institute (PMI)
In addition, you can now become a certified Agile tester or Product Owner. I am myself planning to create a Certified Agile Blogger status. Read more
Agile Culture, Scrum, User Experience and Software Architecture in the Winter 2011 issue of Methods & Tools
Published December 21st, 2011 Under Methods & Tools | Leave a Comment
Methods & Tools – the free magazine for software developers, testers and project managers – has just published its Winter 2011 issue with the following articles that focuses mainly on agile project management, software architecture and user experience. In addition, four open source software development tools are presented, two for software testing and two for project management. Winter 2011 issue content:
* How to Make Your Culture Work with Agile, Kanban & Software Craftsmanship
* How Software Architecture Learns
* Understanding of Burndown Chart
* The Psychology of UX – Part 2
* Cucumber: Behavior Driven Development in Ruby
* Sureassert Exemplars: Java Unit Testing Without Unit Tests
* ChiliProject: Modular Open Source Web-based Project Management
* Scrum-it: Virtual Open Source Scrum Board Application
70 pages of software development knowledge that you can download from http://www.methodsandtools.com/mt/download.php?winter11
Software Development Linkopedia December 2011
Published December 7th, 2011 Under Links | Leave a Comment
Web Site: The Twelve-factor Applications
Web Site: Selenium Tutorial
Blog: Please help Jenkins pay the project expense
Blog: Create the Place Where You Long to Belong
Article: The End of Projects: Moving Toward Evidence-Based Software Investment
Article: NoSQL Databases and Node.js
Article: Unit Testing in Java: A Sleeping Snail
Article: Develop applications using a collaborative, user-centric model
Article: But We Have These Distributed Folks
Tool: The Dart language
Tool: Glimpse – Debug your .NET server
Podcast: Distributed Scrum
Video: Functional Software Testing Tool Selection
Video: Scaled Agile Framework
Video: Java and NoSQL in the Real World
Video: How We Do Language Design at Microsoft
Find more interesting knowledge and content on the software development resources directory, the software development tools directory, the software development articles directory, the software development blogs aggregator or the software development videos directory.
Software Linkopedia November 2011
Published November 16th, 2011 Under Links | Leave a Comment
Here is our selection of interesting knolwedge material on programming, software testing and project management:
Web site: SymbolHound a search engine for programmers and coders
Blog: More about distributed Scrum – one example
Blog: Dan North at Oredev: Embrace Uncertainty
Blog: How Mature Is Your Continuous Integration?
Article: Understanding the Concept of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Article: Design Peer Reviews the ATAM Style
Article: Building the Right Scope
Article: MongoDB vs. RDBMS Schema Design
Tools: Robolectric – Test-Drive Your Android Code
Tool: Spinach – a BDD framework that features encapsulation and modularity
Video: Secrets of World Class Software Organizations
Video: Software Testing is Dead
Video: Successful Agile Planning: An Iteration How-to
Video: Metrics for Better Software Teams
Video: Java Security Trends
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What is a Successful Software Project?
Published September 28th, 2011 Under Software Development | Leave a Comment
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, the burden is more on project managers and developers: they have to estimate the user requests and deliver on these estimates. This requires the mostly complete definition of the requirements at the beginning of project. Every change is the subject to negotiation as it could cause a change in either the budget or the schedule. In this situation, people might be more judging the capacity of people to estimate… or better to protect themselves from unexpected problems. I am sure that many of you have heard: “Take your initial estimate and multiply them by two before communicating them to your project manager or end-user”. A more business-oriented definition of a successful project is based on the delivery of value, the faster the better. In this case, the success of a project could normally be assessed only after the delivery of the application, assessing its return on investment (ROI). The concept of business value might be also implicitly present in the traditional project approach, but its mindset is more strictly focused on the project management results than the creation of value. Read more
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