Quality is Not Negotiable
Most of the teams and organizations I coach are working on using agile methods to improve their software development approach. Somewhere along the way, someone has realized that there must be a better...
View ArticleQuality is not an attribute, it’s a mindset
This was actually cribbed from a Bruce Schneier blog post about security… Security engineers see the world differently than other engineers. Instead of focusing on how systems work, they focus on how...
View ArticleDependecy Injection on J2ME/CLDC devices.
This post is a little geeky and technical and product-related for AgileAdvice, and is a shameless self-promotion. Nevertheless, since testability, test-driven-development, and incremental design are...
View ArticleFinally – a solid metric for code quality.
Bob C. Martin (Uncle Bob to you and me) suggested, in his “quintessence” keynote at the Agile2008 conference that he had the perfect metric for code quality. Cyclomatic complexity and others were...
View ArticleANN: Agile Software Engineering Practices training by Isráfíl Consulting
Isráfíl Consulting is finally prepared for the first series of its Agile Software Engineering Practices training courses. This series is offered in partnership with Berteig Consulting who are...
View ArticleExcellent little article – Technical Debt on your Balance Sheet
http://theagileexecutive.com/2009/09/29/technical-debt-on-your-balance-sheet/
View ArticleThe Rules of Scrum: I am truthful about the internal quality of my product...
Scrum relies on the truthfulness of Team Members to allow for transparency about the internal quality of the product. Internal quality is primarily related to the technical aspects of the product: its...
View ArticleThe Rules of Scrum: I work with all the team members to expand the Definition...
The Definition of “Done” for a Scrum Team makes transparent how close the team’s work is coming to being shippable at the end of every Sprint. Expanding the Definition of “Done” until the team is able...
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Awesome Explanation of Why Refactoring is NOT on the Product Backlog!!!
Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramFrom the excellent Ron Jeffries, we have “Refactoring – Not on the Backlog!“ Learn more about our Scrum and Agile...
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Technical Push-Back – When is it Okay? When is it Bad?
Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramWhenever I run a Certified Scrum Product Owner training session, one concept stands out as critical for...
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Book List for Enterprise Agile Transformations
Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramLeaders of Agile Transformations for the Enterprise need to have good sources of information, concepts and...
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Announcing: The Real Agility Program
Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramThe Real Agility Program is an Enterprise Agile change program to help organizations develop high-performance...
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Measurements Towards Continuous Delivery
Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramI was asked yesterday what measurements a team could start to take to track their progress towards continuous...
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All Team Quality Standards Should Be Part of the Definition of “Done”
Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramThe other day a technology leader was asking questions as if he didn’t agree that things like pair programming and...
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Design Debt & UX Debt is Technical Debt
Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramHey! Let’s all work together, please. Technical Debt is a term which captures sloppy code, unmaintainable...
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Agile Transformation Metrics
Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramTL;DR When asked to provide metrics to assess “how well” an Agile transformation is going, re-frame the discussion...
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Question: Product Owner and Technical Debt
Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramQuestion from Meredith: As a product owner, what are the best ways to record technical debt and what are some...
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Refactoring: 4 Key Principles
Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramI believe in refactoring. The Agile Manifesto holds that The best architectures, requirements and designs emerge...
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Sabine’s Principle of Cumulative Quality Advantage
Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramMany organizations won’t survive the next decade. Of those that survive, even they are likely to be extinct before...
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Equifax Data Breach: Lessons We Must Learn
I woke up this morning to the news that my personal data has been leaked by Equifax to…who knows!? I was reminded of the following tweet: We think awful code is written by awful devs. But in reality,...
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