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No standard testing? Are you crazy?
IT people is often scared when I say that I don’t like the traditional testing phase in IT projects. I understand, it’s so relaxing to know that you have a bunch of people to blame when projects go the...
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Metrics are good … if you know when to ignore them
A manager has to know when to ignore a precise number. “He has to know that ‘larger’ and ‘smaller,’ ‘earlier’ and ‘later,’ ‘up’ and ‘down’ are quantitative terms and often more accurate, indeed more...
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Estimates can be a tricky … in various ways
People turn estimates into targets. Meeting the target becomes the de facto goal and the de facto method. Meeting needs fades in priority via esther derby associates, inc. » /Estimating/ is often...
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Rethink the management rules to suit today’s business conditions
when we look around at the companies who are doing well, it can be hard to see the rhyme or reason of the decisions that led to that success. Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology...
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Stop Starting and Start Finishing
Limiting the number of projects a team is working on – making the team do less – does not have to reduce productivity and can actually deliver more via agile42 | Stop Starting and Start Finishing....
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Why do companies invest in application development?
Most large companies invest heavily in application development, and they do so for a compelling reason: their future might depend on it via Enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of application...
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The (agile) devil is in the details
It’s been said that agile BI is simple but not easy. That is, the concept of working in short iterations, delivering your BI system in small increments, and evolving the solution based on feedback is...
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How to be a better programmer
I’m happy to share something that Kent Beck shared with us answering to the post TDD is dead. Long live testing. What’s I love of Kent’s notes is the fact that he indirectly did a list of the top...
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WDD: a new development paradigm
We will talk about a new development technique called WDD or Worries Driven Development. You might know another couple of *DD techniques: TDD and DDD but they are by far less powerful than WDD. TDD or...
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Of cloud, aerospace and defense
It’s ironic that two industries who are highly reliant on collaboration often have the most siloed legacy systems, processes and IT infrastructures. As one aerospace executive told me recently, the...
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