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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Measuring the value of Agile: Forrester wants to hear from you
We recently spoke with Diego Lo Giudice at Forrester Research to share our views on how organizations are measuring the value of Agile. Diego is leading a research effort to uncover how both software vendors and enterprise IT groups are approaching this challenge. While ”Working software is the primary measure of progress” is one of [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
The Impediment Monkey Announcement – Bash Your Impediments!
We here at Agile Advantage are excited about a new product offering that we announced today called Impediment Monkey! This product goes along with our first product, AgileEVM, to help companies take advantage of Agile software delivery methods at scale for increased business value and reduced risk on project investments. Impediment Monkey will make removing [...]
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 [...]
Testing in an Agile Context
I presented the following in a webinar for Boeing this week on “Testing in an Agile Context”. The focus of the webinar was to discuss differences in approach for testing when moving to an Agile method. Hope that you enjoy. Please leave feedback in the comments section. Testing in an Agile Context 2011 View more [...]
