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 [...]
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The Software Debt Bubble: Is It About to Burst?
These slides are for a keynote presentation I will be doing for Cutter Agile Mexico next week. Looking forward to a great conference. The Software Debt Bubble: Is It About to Burst View more presentations from Chris Sterling
Managing Software Debt in Practice Presentation
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 [...]
Interview: Assessing ROI of Addressing Software Debt
This week, an interview from SearchSoftwareQuality.com with me came out on the book Managing Software Debt: Building for Inevitable Change. The interview has 2 parts. The first is a discussion of software debt and the second focuses on addressing software debt. Here are links to the interview: Managing Software Debt Interview with author Chris Sterling [...]
Training Schedule 2011
Happy New Year! We are looking forward to a great 2011. We have a great lineup of training planned, including our CSM and CSPO offerings, AgileEVM training, and some new trainings. New Training Offerings Along with our current training offerings around Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) courses, we will also be [...]
Our Book is Available: Managing Software Debt – Building for Inevitable Change
See larger image Managing Software Debt: Building for Inevitable Change (Agile Software Development Series) (Hardcover) By (author) Chris Sterling List Price: $49.99 USD New From: $8.66 In Stock Used from: $8.66 In Stock I am quite happy about the book that took much of my time over the past couple years has finally come out. Thank [...]
Managing Software Debt Presentation from Agilepalooza in Redmond, WA
Managing Software Debt agilepalooza-redmond-sept2010 View more presentations from Chris Sterling.
Focus on Team Communication
In the agile community there are some common practices that are either seen as valuable or to be avoided. Two of those practices are estimation using Planning Poker and Sprint Planning task breakdown. The focus for many teams in these practices is on the estimates themselves and how “accurate” they are. It has been my [...]
Slides from Managing Software Debt Talk at PNSQC 2009
Tomorrow at 1:30pm I will be discussing my paper published by the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference 2009 in Portland, OR on “Managing Software Debt: Continued Delivery of High Value as Systems Age”. I have uploaded the slides for this presentation and I hope that some of the new content will help those looking for [...]
Executable Specifications – Presentation from AgilePalooza
Earlier this year I did a presentation on Executable Specficiations for AgilePalooza conference. There is information about working with legacy code, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) systems, and Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) using automated acceptance testing tools. Also, the presentation lists types of automated acceptance testing tools out there along with actual names of tools and what [...]
