Inspired by the Podcast ‘Tips and Advice – Manifesto for Agile Software Development‘ in which Bob Payne and George Dinwiddie discuss the points made in the Agile Manifesto and talk about agile environments and mechanics. If you would like to discover the power of agile teams you should definitely check this one out! They also [...]
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March 25, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Industry Terms, Software development
Social Tagging: agile • development • team
Filed under: Industry Terms, Software development
Social Tagging: agile • development • team
This term simply stands as a reminder for, how many people need to get hit by a bus to leave you without anybody being familiar with one of your mission-critical applications. If the number equals one, you might re-consider your strategy… Don’t forget, there are also more common ways for developers to go somewhere else [...]
In an article from 1968 with the title “How Do Committees Invent?”, the author Melvin Conway makes the following point, which later became established as “Conway’s Law”: “Any organization that designs a system will inevitably produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.” (Original Article) (Conway’s Law on Wikipedia) Conway [...]
August 12, 2008 by marco · 3 Comments
Filed under: Industry Terms, Software development
Social Tagging: agile • development
Filed under: Industry Terms, Software development
Social Tagging: agile • development
If you engage in agile development methods, sooner or later you will come accross the ‘Chicken and Pig’ analogy. It’s purpose is to depict the different levels of commitment of project stakeholders. It summs up like this: A chicken and a pig decide to start a restaurant. The chicken suggests to serve bacon and eggs. [...]
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