Matt Heusser, on behalf of InformIT, conducted an interview with me regarding the book Managing Software Debt: Building for Inevitable Change. We discuss what software debt is, some ways that it can be managed, maintaining a single list of work, how software debt is measured, and we even got into training and our product AgileEVM.com. [...]
Archives for February 2011
Faster, Better, and Cheaper than Sticky Notes (Post-Its)
For several years now, I have been using less and less sticky notes. This is because I use something much better: Drafting Dots. They work better, last longer, cost less, do not harm any surfaces, and make my life much easier. Now, I can easily use mail merge or tables to print out stories using four [...]
All About Agile: A Collection of Great Agile Content
Kelly Waters is now providing a great service to the Agile community by integrating content from talented writers and thinkers at All About Agile. If you are interested in furthering your knowledge about tools, practices, process, and people in adopting Agile values and methods this could be a great spot for you. Thank you, Kelly.
Integrating Quality into Portfolio Management, PMI Silicon Valley Chapter Dinner Meeting Jan 2011
This presentation focused on two themes: asserting quality - an opportunity agile presents - and leveraging adaptive planning, which is a consequence of agile software development. AgileEVM became a big part of this talk when the audience requested more information about it at dinner. Integrating Quality into Portfolio Management, PMI Silicon Valley Chapter Dinner Meeting [...]
The Changing Role of Middle Managers
This is an exercise that we run to help understand how manager’s roles change. This is a re-posting of a session at Agile Open Northwest 2009 [[http://bit.ly/hrLemn]]. I opened with stories describing the reality that Senior Leadership is declaring their companies are “going Agile,” and that doing it well presents many difficulties. A potentially intractable [...]
