I had a great time speaking at the QASIG group meeting last night and met some great folks along with reconnecting with others I haven’t seen in some time. Here is the video of the presentation. Video streaming by Ustream And the slides Managing Software Debt – Quality Debt Focus for QASIG Seattle View [...]
Archives for Push-Button Release
The Stability Index: Focusing on Release Stabilization
While recently working with Juni Mukherjee on a team that is focused on finding ways to extending and increasing the value of a large legacy platform she brought up what I thought was a brilliant idea. We had been working on creating metrics that have tension with each other to drive continuous integration effectiveness from the [...]
SeaSPIN Talk: Dollars and Dates Are Killing Agile
Last night I spoke at SeaSPIN on the topic “Dollars and Dates Are Killing Agile”. The focus of this talk is how we can speak more like business with the benefit of building organizations that are more supportive of adaptive planning, continuous improvement and team empowerment. If we do not speak the language of the [...]
Delving into Technical Debt – Cutter Article
The following is an except from the article authored by Israel Gat and myself named “Delving into Technical Debt”: Many of the findings and the recommendations we make in Cutter technical debt engagements are broadly applicable in concept, if not in detail. There is commonality in the nature of the hot spots we typically find, [...]
Puget Sound PMI Talk: Integrating Quality into Project Portfolio Management
Last week I did a talk in Lynnwood, WA with the Puget Sound PMI chapter on “Integrating Quality into Project Portfolio Management”. I feel that the slides were the best yet in providing specific indicators and understanding around the troubles with scaling Agile methods and in strategic decision-making at scale. Although stage, phase, or “gated” [...]
Interview with Spot On Business: Agility for the Long Haul
On November 1st at 2:00pm ET (11:00am PT) for about 45- to 60-minutes, Gil Broza will have me on as an interview guest on his series “Spot On Business” talking about “Agility for the Long Haul”. You may sign up at http://3pvantage.com/csterling/saveMySeat.php?ver=SC to be part of the conversation. Here is a brief description of the [...]
Treating Software as an Asset
William Caputo wrote a passionate blog entry on why “Software is not an asset” here: http://www.williamcaputo.com/archives/000310.html Although I entirely agree with ideas discussed about refactoring and removal of code, I do not think that the blog entry substantiates his claim that software is not an asset. An asset is: Anything tangible or intangible that is [...]
Towards a Push-Button Release
This presentation is being delivered as a 45-minute lecture and discussion for a company-wide tech talk today. It contains 2 case studies that revolve around moving to a push-button release that reduced the whole product company’s release cycles from 6 months to every week and the effects of a “No Defect” policy on a team’s [...]
