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| Related DevelopMentor Courses | MORE | | Agile: Where's the evidence? e-mailed a friend of mine who is undertaking a PhD in Architecture and Agile and asked him: Can you please point me at a literature review? Notice, if I was a serious researcher I would closet myself in the library for days or weeks and do the literature review myself. For their book Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development Coplien and Harrison spent over 10 years assessing teams. A few weeks ago I was presenting at the BCS SIGIST conference - another outing for my popular Objective Agility presentation. My response was in two parts. Lets start with “Agile.” Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, March 30, 2012 10 years on: IT does matter, more than ever Just under 10 years ago Nicholas Carr wrote a (in)famous piece in the Harvard Business Review entitled “IT doesn’t matter”. remember booking my first flight to the US that year. We talked, she booked me a flight. This year I’ve booked flights on BA, KLM, S7 and Virgin Atlantic. How I book them - the company web site, Opodo, Expedia, SkyScanner has a lot to do with the customer service experience. normal start a flight search on SkyScanner, switch to Opodo or Expedia to book and complete things on the airlines own site. It was a strategy decision. Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, July 19, 2012 People or the system? George Orwell, “Charles Dickens” essay in Shooting and Elephant and Other Essays, Penguin Books I am sure I am not alone in exhibiting another of Orwellian trait: Double think. An article in the MIT Sloan Management Review a few years back suggested that when “star players” move to a new team they don’t necessarily, or even normally, keep their “star player” performance. “the two view-points are always tenable. The one, how can you improve human nature until you have changed the system? The other, what is the use of changing the system before you have improved human nature?” Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 |
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| The Latest from DevelopMentor | MORE | | People or the system? George Orwell, “Charles Dickens” essay in Shooting and Elephant and Other Essays, Penguin Books I am sure I am not alone in exhibiting another of Orwellian trait: Double think. An article in the MIT Sloan Management Review a few years back suggested that when “star players” move to a new team they don’t necessarily, or even normally, keep their “star player” performance. “the two view-points are always tenable. The one, how can you improve human nature until you have changed the system? The other, what is the use of changing the system before you have improved human nature?” Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 10 years on: IT does matter, more than ever Just under 10 years ago Nicholas Carr wrote a (in)famous piece in the Harvard Business Review entitled “IT doesn’t matter”. remember booking my first flight to the US that year. We talked, she booked me a flight. This year I’ve booked flights on BA, KLM, S7 and Virgin Atlantic. How I book them - the company web site, Opodo, Expedia, SkyScanner has a lot to do with the customer service experience. normal start a flight search on SkyScanner, switch to Opodo or Expedia to book and complete things on the airlines own site. It was a strategy decision. Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, July 19, 2012 Business Patterns for Software Developers OK, I admit it, I was there to plug my book Business Patterns for Software Developers - sales are going well, although I can always do with more and a few more reviews on Amazon would be well received. One of these questions concerned the book’s title: Business Patterns for Software Developers. Second, when I was writing the book I tried to imagine the reader. Who was going to read this book? And yes, I imagined specific individuals reading this book. Anyway, I digress…. There must have been 30 or so people there and the presentation was well received. Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, June 8, 2012 | -
| The Best from DevelopMentor | MORE | - Book review: Silverlight 4 in Action
Some weeks ago I received a review copy of Silverlight in Action by Pete Brown. Reviewing this book took some time as it weighs in at a hefty 798 pages, who ever said that Silverlight was a small products? That is a lot of material but then the book doesn't assume any prior knowledge of Silverlight at all. The book is divided into 25 chapters in 3 different sections. In these cases the book is a nice point to get started but no more than that and getting additional information on the Internet is pretty much a requirement. So who is this book for? The Problem Solver - Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - Building Windows Machines in Amazon EC2
Now I must admit I'd rather have found a good tutorial on The Internets or even in a book. Here's what you can expect for the review screen of the Request Instances Wizard. In this article I'm going to give you a simple, step-by-step overview of how to create a Windows 2008 server image in Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) infrastructure. Feel free to send me any I missed. My experience is they are either dated or about Linux and so on. First, briefly why does one care about EC2? That's a great reason and Microsoft and Google have interesting plays there too. Here we go. Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Saturday, January 30, 2010 - Make strategy like you make software?
There is an interesting piece in the latest issue of the MIT Sloan Review entitled: Should you build strategy like you build software? We embed our knowledge in our code so our organisations can operate: whether it is the Galileo booking system, Google’s Adwords or Unilever’s ERP system the capabilities and limitations of our IT systems are also the capabilities and limitations of our organizations. As Cynthia Rettig argued in her Sloan Review piece, the limitations imposed by an ERP system impose costs on organization and limits on what they can do. Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - How to improve a team's velocity?
So, invest in developer training, buy them books, send them on courses, bring in coaches, set up book study groups and other exchanges were developers can learn to do things better. Teams get to review work in progress and take corrective action more often. By way of wrapping up my velocity mini-series ( Two ways to fill and iteration , Filling an iteration too well , and Velocity Targeting and Velocity Inflation ) I’m going to end with some advice on how to improve a team’s velocity. Each little fix improve your productivity (velocity) a little bit. But back to software. Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, July 1, 2010 - Software Facts - well, numbers at least
Office environments can have as much of an impact on productivity as tools and methods Looking after employees well increases productivity and reduces turn-over Companies providing 10 day or more of training per employee per year have higher productivity rates than similar companies who do not Accounting errors (and use of unpaid overtime) can hide the true cost of software production by 100%, i.e. the work costs twice as much as the accountants say Formal design reviews and code inspections are effective but can fall into disuse because (new) managers do not understand this. Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, January 14, 2011 - 10 years on: IT does matter, more than ever
Just under 10 years ago Nicholas Carr wrote a (in)famous piece in the Harvard Business Review entitled “IT doesn’t matter”. remember booking my first flight to the US that year. We talked, she booked me a flight. This year I’ve booked flights on BA, KLM, S7 and Virgin Atlantic. How I book them - the company web site, Opodo, Expedia, SkyScanner has a lot to do with the customer service experience. normal start a flight search on SkyScanner, switch to Opodo or Expedia to book and complete things on the airlines own site. It was a strategy decision. Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, July 19, 2012 - Final roundup of facts from Capers Jones
In two previous entries I’ve reported some interesting statistics and findings - possibly facts - from Capers Jones book Applied Software Measurement (see Software Facts - well, numbers at least and More Facts and Figures from Capers Jones ). want to finish off with a few notes from the later chapters of the book. Formal design and code reviews are cheaper than testing. Its a shame Jones missed this reference, given how well the book is referenced on the whole I’m surprised. Removing some of the duplication would make for a shorter book. Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 %>
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