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 [...]
Archive for September, 2008
September 1, 2008 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Articles, Software development
Social Tagging: agile • development
Filed under: Articles, Software development
Social Tagging: agile • development
VersionOne have published their 3rd Annual ‘State of Agile Development’ survey: Results are available on this page or as pdf. Overview of topics covered: State of agile methods. Mix of participanting companies. Reasons for adopting agile methods. Concerns against it. Practices applied. Reasons for failures. Where agile creates value. What tools are used.
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 [...]
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