http://technicaldebt.com/ a perspective on agile development -- and sometimes other random things -- from jon kern en-us 2010-02-06T16:37:55-05:00 http://technicaldebt.com/archives/2010_02.html#000855 Carson Holmes made an interesting post Big Consultants Use "Lean" Buzz to Take Advantage of Bureaucrats My response: And you can bet that when Big Company and Big Consulting Inc fills out an industry survey about the success of the... Philosophy jon 2010-02-06T16:37:55-05:00 http://technicaldebt.com/archives/2010_02.html#000851 Larry Constantine wrote a "Real Data" post wherein he posited a question (summarizing): What would it mean to the agile community IF CMM level 5 and RUP practices actually worked significantly better than agile ones? Would that mean we should... Philosophy jon 2010-02-01T23:08:02-05:00 http://technicaldebt.com/archives/2009_02.html#000843 Following on a tip from Uncle Bob Martin, I am going to try this out Pomodoro Technique in 5 minutes While I already use a timer for activity tracking, the method is not as nearly as refined and intriguing as... agile techniques jon 2009-02-11T11:53:03-05:00 http://technicaldebt.com/archives/2009_02.html#000842 Today I had a little "tiff" with a developer about something very trivial by most accounts. Maybe I was having an off-hormone day, or my biorhythms are off. A simple table was proposed to hold the text name behind a... Development jon 2009-02-05T22:05:16-05:00 http://technicaldebt.com/archives/2009_02.html#000840 This is a very interesting take... Cognitive Surplus... Philosophy jon 2009-02-04T09:40:32-05:00 http://technicaldebt.com/archives/2009_01.html#000839 Steve Gordon posited the following in response to the original poster thinking about Original Post: I explained in a simple words as possible the competitive advantage they could get if they give agile a chance, so I hope they will... Philosophy jon 2009-01-28T12:44:34-05:00 http://technicaldebt.com/archives/2009_01.html#000837 Agile Project Management forum got this post: While on a business trip overseas last week I had an in-promptu meeting with a potential customer during which I explained to them the benefits of Agile. As result the excutives[sic] asked me... humor jon 2009-01-27T17:48:13-05:00 http://technicaldebt.com/archives/2009_01.html#000825 This is a great parable about agile development. Rocks into Gold Share it with your "management" or clients that might need a boost to their understanding of what agile could become... if people embrace the concepts.... Philosophy jon 2009-01-16T21:30:59-05:00 http://technicaldebt.com/archives/2009_01.html#000824 From Alan (a thread on agile project management forum): Now as to the why-bother: 1. Government reports require (a) a summary and explanation of R&D activities, and (b) an auditable tally of hours spent doing this. 2. To develop some... agile techniques jon 2009-01-08T09:21:31-05:00 http://technicaldebt.com/archives/2008_12.html#000822 I have long wanted to collect little gems of "technical Debt" along the way. So, when I stumbled upon wetpaint.com (because I was looking for a replacement to stikipad.com, I finally started up a little site on Technical Debt: http://technicaldebt.wetpaint.com/... jon 2008-12-27T12:17:00-05:00 http://technicaldebt.com/archives/2008_11.html#000816 Kind of an astounding bash going on here.. Interestingly, Tim Hunter is "...[trying] to launch his own quality driven development methodology called ‘Prudence’ which he hopes will rival Agile. The ‘Prudence’ methodology promotes the idea of developers working for testers."... jon 2008-11-29T09:46:11-05:00 http://technicaldebt.com/archives/2008_11.html#000812 On 6th November, I was looking forward to heckling Scott Ambler during his scheduled talk to the Philadelphia Java Users Group (JUG). One of the JUG leads, Fred Stluka, says it best: Jon spoke at a Philly Java Users Group... talks jon 2008-11-11T15:52:58-05:00 http://technicaldebt.com/archives/2008_10.html#000806 Responding to: John Hebley said the following on 10/20/08 11:08 PM: Philippe, Jon May the force be with you. I was about to rant and rave about incompetent managers etc, but that would be just preaching to the choir. That... agile techniques jon 2008-10-21T09:23:36-05:00 http://technicaldebt.com/archives/2008_10.html#000802 An agile modeling poster: How does agile prevent stovepipe systems and implementations. My inquisitor seems to think that agile development processes actually increase the incidence of stovepipe systems and thinking. (I'm paraphrasing here) Agile is recursive. Just as the power... jon 2008-10-09T21:26:16-05:00 http://technicaldebt.com/archives/2008_09.html#000796 A young developer and their team want to go the agile route... Innocently asking for some examples of complete project documentation from which to learn... spurned me to thinking if it is even possible to "see" agile without being a... Philosophy jon 2008-09-20T14:58:51-05:00