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A couple days ago I spoke at the Beyond Agile group meeting on the topic of “Recognizing Software Debt”. Early in the presentation we ran an exercise to get a feel for the effects of software debt that was original created by my friend, Masa Maeda. Here is a link to the exercise: http://www.agilistapm.com/understand-technical-debt-by-playing-a-game/ The [...]

Friday, December 2nd, 2011 at 18:07 | 0 comments
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More than a year ago I was training and consulting with a company that was deciding how to adopt Agile software development methods across all of their teams in the organization after some successful pilots. After a 2-day private Scrum course we decided to use the 3rd day to run a workshop on how to [...]

Friday, September 30th, 2011 at 14:25 | 0 comments
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Today at the Scrum Gathering in Seattle, I held a session on “Managing Software Debt in Practice” where we got into: Using Sonar for trending metrics and spelunking into code quickly Executable Design using Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) Acceptance Test-Driven Development Teams developing towards 1 Product Backlog item at a time rather than design/code/test throughout a [...]

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011 at 22:35 | 0 comments
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() I am quite happy about the book that took much of my time over the past couple years has finally come out. Thank you Addison-Wesley for asking me to write a book. Also, I want to thank Jim Highsmith and Alistair Cockburn for accepting the book into their Agile Software Development Series. Finally, I have [...]

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010 at 15:19 | 1 comment
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To get towards continuous deployment, or even continuous validated builds, a team must take care of their automated build, test, analyze, deploy scripts. I always recommend that you have 2 scripts: deploy rollback And that these scripts are used many times per iteration to reduce the risk of surprises when deploying to downstream server environments, [...]

Friday, December 10th, 2010 at 10:00 | 0 comments
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Managing Software Debt agilepalooza-redmond-sept2010 View more presentations from Chris Sterling.

Monday, September 27th, 2010 at 11:41 | 1 comment
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For those of you that don’t already know about Sonar you are missing an important tool in your quality assessment arsenal. Sonar is an open source tool that is a foundational platform to manage your software’s quality. The image below shows one of the main dashboard views that teams can use to get insights into [...]

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 at 23:48 | 0 comments
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Thanks to Jeremy Lightsmith, the lightning talk I did last night at SeaSPIN on Portfolio Management and Software Debt was caught on video. The talk went over 5 ills that you might see in software projects that can affect strategic planning and some ways that can help identify the ills more quickly for planning purposes. [...]

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 at 11:24 | 0 comments
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For many years now, it has been a goal of mine to get feedback as early as possible when developing software. Past blog entries here and here have discussed how we can approach increased feedback. A tweet from Jason Gorman mentioned his list of tools that provide continuous feedback on his code and design: “Emma, [...]

Friday, December 11th, 2009 at 20:53 | 1 comment
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StoryTestIQ is an automated acceptance testing tool, which was originally a mashup of 2 existing open source projects, Selenium and FitNesse. StoryTestIQ is many times shortened to STIQ (pronounced “stick”) so it rolls off the tongue more easily. STIQ takes the idea of testing inside the browser a la Selenium and enables editing, tagging, and [...]

Monday, November 23rd, 2009 at 19:43 | 2 comments
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