March 30th, 2009
A colleague recently described the requirements process in his (non-Agile) organization to me. In their process, the business people talk to the business analysts who talk to the systems analysts who give requirements to the programmers.
As he was explaining all this, I couldn’t help but reflect on all the possible points of failure.
I’ve seen conversations around . . . → Read More: Lost in Translation
March 25th, 2009
I recently had the opportunity to visit AboutUs in Portland, OR. In case you’re not familiar with AboutUs, they’ve created a community-driven wikified guide to websites.
(So how appropriate that I’m blogging this on the 14th birthday of the Wiki, as Ward Cunningham reminded us over Twitter, another catalytic technology.)
Anyway, AboutUs is doing very cool stuff. For . . . → Read More: Visiting AboutUs
March 18th, 2009
Certification of software professionals has been a hot topic for quite a while. At least 15 years. Maybe longer.
I keep hoping that the whole thing will blow over.
But it hasn’t. And it’s not going to. Too many people have too much of a financial stake in the success of certifications. Certification customers, including individuals and their . . . → Read More: Agile Certifications
March 13th, 2009
I was honored to be included on the lunch and learn panel at the Software Quality Association of Denver (SQuAD) conference this week. One of the questions that came up had to do with triaging bugs in an Agile context. Here’s my answer, in a bit more detail than I could give at the panel.
The short . . . → Read More: Handling Bugs in an Agile Context
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