Posts Tagged ‘agile’

Just in case learning JIC learning is the old fashion way of learning; you take courses, read books, and do exercises then hope you might be able to apply the skills/knowledge you learned someday. Unfortunately, the shelf lives of technologies are getting shorter & shorter. New technologies emerge every week. As a result, people in […]

This is the final segment of a 6 part series. Part I introduced the concept of analytically measuring the performance of delivery teams. In Part II – We talked about how Agile practices enhance our ability to measure more accurately and more often. Part III defined a system model for defining 3 dimensions of performance […]

During work on our in-house lightweight metadata repository (MDR), I’ve started to use DBFit for database acceptance testing and have been pleasantly surprised at the simplicity of the tool and its ability to deliver on its promise of low entry cost testing. DBFit is a part of FitNesse, itself an implementation of the FIT acceptance […]

This is Part V in a multi-part series. Part I introduced the concept of analytically measuring the performance of delivery teams. In Part II – We talked about how Agile practices enhance our ability to measure more accurately and more often. Part III defined a system model for defining 3 dimensions of performance (Predictability, Quality […]

We have team members who attended a Boot Camp where they learned skills such as how to write a unit test.  They are very smart and created a lot of unit tests for their code. We use unit test coverage rates to judge the quality of unit tests. The boot camp team got a 87.5% […]

This is Part IV in a multi-part series. In Part I – We introduced the concept of analytically measuring the performance of delivery teams. In Part II – We talked about how Agile practices enhance our ability to measure more accurately and more often. In Part III – We introduced a system model for defining […]

Although agile software development methodologies value customer collaboration more than contract negotiations, it does not mean that contracting is not important. In fact, proper contracting is critical to the success of a project (especially for multi-shore projects). Many projects become “Death March” because of inappropriate contracting. If we look into the business of software offshore […]

This is Part III in a multi-part series. In Part I – We introduced the concept of analytically measuring the performance of delivery teams. In Part II – We talked about how Agile practices enhance our ability to measure more accurately and more often. In this part, we’ll talk about “Which Dimensions are Most Important […]

It’s very common nowadays to use multiple tools in our development environment, we use: Subversion for version control Sonar for static analysis Selenium for web testing automation Hudson for continuous integration Maven for build management etc.

Risk Management is important in projects as everybody understands, while sometimes it still could be ignored by the project managers especially those who just start the role.   The project team should have all the dependencies listed for tracking and monitoring, while that’s not enough, mitigation to the risk of those dependencies not being solved […]

Measurement is difficult to carry out in the agile engineering and management process.  However, in practical activities, developers have been trying to use measurement to manage and monitor their own projects. Measurement of software features helps developers to understand the software requirements consistently and completely, to know the actual quality extent and to make sure […]

Recently I acted as the product owner (PO) of a system which is about resource/training management. The complexity of the system is moderate as there are less than 10 pages and over hundred of business rules. Since I could only spend about one hour each day in elaborating the requirements of the system, I did […]