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Debunking some myths about Agile
Last week a comment arrived on my Failures in Agile process entry from April 2007. For my full argument: Buy the book, Changing Software Development. • “The main bottleneck I came across is the failure to define good system requirements. But blame is not a very useful concept. • “Downsides of agile:” To the myths. • “agile may only be used on small projects” • “maximum 5 developers on project“ False: this myth started because the early writers on Agile hadn’t applied it to large projects when the wrote the first books. What’s interesting is that this post exists. False.
Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, September 14, 2008
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Spoke at ACCU London last night
And, in case I didn’t mention it, I have a book to plug ! :) The subject of my talk was ‘ Agile development - where to begin ’. ve now uploaded the 2007 version of this presentation (the previous link) but, and this is a big but , the presentation I gave last night was very different. As it happened 7 City were fully booked last night so couldn’t find a room for us. If you want to know what I said you have two options: buy the book , or invite me to give a talk to your organization/company/family I spoke at ACCU London last night. let me explain. Anyway. 90 minutes?
Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, February 22, 2008
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New pieces on the website
Session notes from Creating Awareness / Exposing Problems is the result of my ACCU 2007 conference session. My patterns from VikingPLoP 2007 (More) Patterns for Software Companies were uploaded just before Christmas but never announced here. Mentally I’ve accepted that I am going to write a second book. In the meantime, if your missing this blog you can buy the book. I’ve been holding out, waiting until I have the time to write a really great start-the-year blog entry. Well I’ve not had the time and I’m about to go on holiday for a week. And what for this year?
Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, January 4, 2008
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  • Book review: Minimalism Beyond the "Nurnberg Funnel" and thoughts on documentation
    Still I think I may have read the wrong book, a better starting place for this subject would of been the authors first book on the subject The Nurnberg Funnel. Both books discuss the same concept, namely minimalism in technical documentation. However the newer book (Beyond) is not so much an introduction to the subject but a review of how the ideas had developed in 8 years. So I think the earlier book may have been a better starting position. Now, 9 years after the second book I assume things have moved on again. Anyway, get back to the book.
    Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, February 22, 2007
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  • Marshalling native function pointers
    Now that the book is written and all urgent tasks I had to defer due to the book are done, I find some time to blog about technical topics. In my book I focus on wrapping class libraries that use virtual functions for callbacks instead of function pointers, because virtual functions are the typical C++-like approach for callbacks. Recently, a customer asked me how to marshal function pointers across managed / unmanaged interop boundaries. To discuss this topic, consider the following simple API: namespace NativeAPI. {. struct CallbackData. {. of the CLR. pWrappedObject).
    Marcus' Blog - Friday, April 6, 2007
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  • Back from the 2007 ACCU conference
    I got back yesterday from the 2007 ACCU Conference. Mary Poppendieck presented some figures from Mike Cohen’s book Agile Estimating and Planning. Once again this was a great conference. Lots of good stuff on Agile and Lean (Mary and Tom Poppendieck delivered a keynote), software management, programming in general, Java, C# and C++. mainly kept myself to the management and agile sessions. Also I was involved with a lot of ACCU business type stuff occurring around the conference. Apologies for that blog entry, its one of the ones with formatting problems.) Is this a trend?
    Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, April 15, 2007
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  • Finishing my book
    After one year of writing, my book will be finished soon. All other chapters of my book are now going to be copy edited. The book will summarize essentail parts of my research on C++/CLI in the last two years. The title of the book will be "Expert C++/CLI: NET for Visual C++ programmers" and the release date will be Mid March A long project is comming to an end soon. chapters need some minor changes. Notice that the announcement in amazon.com is not 100% correct.
    Marcus' Blog - Saturday, January 13, 2007
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  • Book review: The Box
    Fortunately its also given me time to finish off another book - The Box by Marc Levinson Yes this book was short-listed for the FT book of the year by that wasn't why I read it. would have read this book anyway because. I'd recommend this book for three reasons: its a good story, its an easy read and third its educational. A couple of days off work with a stinking cold has given me a lot of time lying on the sofa feeling sorry for myself. well, I've got a thing about ships and even containers. The Box is both a story and a business case study.
    Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, January 10, 2007
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  • Book review: Siemens Best Practises
    For once a review of a book I'm not recommending. In fact I found Knowledge Management Case Book: Siemens Best Practises quite disappointing. bought this book for two reasons. So I thought a book of case studies would shed some light on it. Unfortunately I was disappointed on all counts and I'm giving up on the book after only 3 or chapters. However no mention was made of patterns in this chapter or elsewhere in the book. think the book missed something very important. So I'm not recommending this book. Not what I hoped for at all.
    Allan Kelly's Blog - Saturday, February 3, 2007
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  • Book Review: The Elegant Solution
    think I’m going to have to give up reading serious books to do with software development, business and change until my own book is finished. Problem is when I read a book that comes anywhere close to my subject things get confusing. Although May tries to be practical the book is still quite conceptual. Its a good book for creating aspirations. also found that the book overlapped with my own thinking and the draft of my book. I’ll recommend this book, its worth reading but I’m not completely happy with it. What is next?
    Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, March 22, 2007
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