Acronym Driven Development (ADD)
Have you had enough of all the xDD acronyms that have emerged over the last couple of years? Do you already know all about Responsibility...
Iterative and Incremental Development: New Definitions
I came to the conclusion that iterative and incremental development both need a new definition. Here is a piece of text I have been worki...
Unit Test This Email Form!
This is so funny, I just have to share it with you… I tried to contact the folks at Agile Journal magazine today. The Contact Us li...
A Stand-up about Stand-ups
Today our project managers and development managers reviewed the practice of the stand-up meetings introduced by me into our organization...
AINO: Agile In Name Only
It is well known that many organization who claim to have adopted the Prince2 project management method, are in fact using PINO (Prince2 ...
To Iterate or Not to Iterate
I love it when the experts don’t agree. It makes me feel smarter. Because, by not agreeing with any of the experts, I actually feel...
The Pain of Having My Babies Published
Having an article published is like having a baby. The conception of the article is (usually) an enjoyable experience, but the effort nee...
Software Development Ethics (Not French!)
How do we implement software development ethics? What does it mean to be an ethical software developer? As an individual I like to discri...
Self-Organized Quality Improvement
Today I counted no less than four new initiatives promoted by our employees: A business consultant found a good tool that could help us t...
Amazing Discoveries for Presentations
Today I made some amazing discoveries. I have given my usual presentation on the complexity of software projects to a small number of stu...
What is an Agile Project?
Scott Ambler has started another Agile Adoption survey with Dr. Dobb's, the 2008 version this time. Though I applaud the fact that ex...
Agile CMMI
As I said before, I have not yet made up my mind about the CMMI vs. Agile debate. I value my life too much to start meddling with this su...
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