Archives for May 2011

Implementing Agile in the Shark tank

An ex-colleague of mine, Santosh Kolhatkar, wrote up the following points about introducing an Agile approach inside a large enterprise with an existing traditional SDLC process. What he points out in his writeup regarding a foundation for introducing an Agile approach when there is a heavy focus put onto SDLC compliance and governance is in [...]

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UW Cloud Computing Certificate Program Starting

I wanted to let readers of this blog know about a great program that is starting up in the University of Washington’s Professional and Continuing Education program. Here is a blurb about it below: UW Professional & Continuing Education is launching a new Certificate program in Cloud Computing starting in Fall 2011. The program can [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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