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| Related DevelopMentor Courses | MORE | | Agile: Where's the evidence? It is rarely a question aimed at a rational decision. Despite this one study claimed Scrum resulted in productivity improvements of as much as 600% - Benefield, “Rolling Out Agile in a Large Enterprise”. A few weeks ago I was presenting at the BCS SIGIST conference - another outing for my popular Objective Agility presentation. Someone in the audience asked: “Where is the evidence that Agile works?” My response was in two parts. Second I said: lets turn the question around, Where is the evidence for Waterfall? to which the answer is certainly No. Lets start with “Agile.” Scrum? Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, March 30, 2012 Does anyone actually use Quick Test Pro etc.? Those who talk about automated testing buy tools like Quick Test Pro, WinRunner and Quality Centre and Rational Test Workbench, Rational Quality Manager, i.e. expensive products from the likes of HP and IBM. The IBM and HP products are expensive, so expensive you have to ask the price (actually IBM does give the price of Test Workbench at $5,500 for a single user license). The people who are sold these products are very disconnected from the day-to-day work of developers and testers. QTP and similar products are often linked to the OS or browser. Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, September 19, 2012 10 Things to make you Agile adoption successfull What ever you call the role you want someone who can: Provide advice on which practices and process to adopt, and how to best adopt them Offer examples of what they have seen work, and not work, elsewhere, and how other team tackle similar issues Observe, examine, query and challenge your thinking on what you are doing Challenge your thinking and point out opportunities and idea that you haven’t seen yet You may need to work with multiple advisors since few will be able to cover all process, practice, technology, product and strategy bases. Either way, the prognosis isn’t optimistic. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, May 14, 2012 |
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| The Latest from DevelopMentor | MORE | | Requirements whose job are they anyway? 'Later this week I’m giving a talk at Skills Matter entitled: “Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner, Spy!” In the extreme this means developers never get to meet, talk to or understand the people and businesses that will be using the product. However, it was another problem that was on my mind more when I thought up the talk: the confusion of roles between Business Analysts and Product Managers, made worse by the appearance of the Scrum Product Owner title. think there are a number of problems on this side of the business. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, April 15, 2013 Conway's Law v. Software Architecture There is need for a philosophy of system design management which is not based on the assumption that adding manpower simply adds to productivity." Economists might call this path-dependency: you are where you are because of how you got here not because of any current, rational, forces. I've written about Conway's Law before ( Return to Conway’s Law (2006) and a Focus Group I ran at EuroPLoP “What do we think of Conway’s Law Now?” ) but I make no apologies for revisiting it again because I still think it hold true. Conway, 1968 The original paper “ How do committees invent? Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, March 13, 2013 Does anyone actually use Quick Test Pro etc.? Those who talk about automated testing buy tools like Quick Test Pro, WinRunner and Quality Centre and Rational Test Workbench, Rational Quality Manager, i.e. expensive products from the likes of HP and IBM. The IBM and HP products are expensive, so expensive you have to ask the price (actually IBM does give the price of Test Workbench at $5,500 for a single user license). The people who are sold these products are very disconnected from the day-to-day work of developers and testers. QTP and similar products are often linked to the OS or browser. Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, September 19, 2012 | -
| The Best from DevelopMentor | MORE | - Does anyone actually use Quick Test Pro etc.?
Those who talk about automated testing buy tools like Quick Test Pro, WinRunner and Quality Centre and Rational Test Workbench, Rational Quality Manager, i.e. expensive products from the likes of HP and IBM. The IBM and HP products are expensive, so expensive you have to ask the price (actually IBM does give the price of Test Workbench at $5,500 for a single user license). The people who are sold these products are very disconnected from the day-to-day work of developers and testers. QTP and similar products are often linked to the OS or browser. Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - Agile: Where's the evidence?
It is rarely a question aimed at a rational decision. Despite this one study claimed Scrum resulted in productivity improvements of as much as 600% - Benefield, “Rolling Out Agile in a Large Enterprise”. A few weeks ago I was presenting at the BCS SIGIST conference - another outing for my popular Objective Agility presentation. Someone in the audience asked: “Where is the evidence that Agile works?” My response was in two parts. Second I said: lets turn the question around, Where is the evidence for Waterfall? to which the answer is certainly No. Lets start with “Agile.” Scrum? Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, March 30, 2012 - 10 Things to make you Agile adoption successfull
What ever you call the role you want someone who can: Provide advice on which practices and process to adopt, and how to best adopt them Offer examples of what they have seen work, and not work, elsewhere, and how other team tackle similar issues Observe, examine, query and challenge your thinking on what you are doing Challenge your thinking and point out opportunities and idea that you haven’t seen yet You may need to work with multiple advisors since few will be able to cover all process, practice, technology, product and strategy bases. Either way, the prognosis isn’t optimistic. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, May 14, 2012 - Conway's Law v. Software Architecture
There is need for a philosophy of system design management which is not based on the assumption that adding manpower simply adds to productivity." Economists might call this path-dependency: you are where you are because of how you got here not because of any current, rational, forces. I've written about Conway's Law before ( Return to Conway’s Law (2006) and a Focus Group I ran at EuroPLoP “What do we think of Conway’s Law Now?” ) but I make no apologies for revisiting it again because I still think it hold true. Conway, 1968 The original paper “ How do committees invent? Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - Requirements whose job are they anyway?
'Later this week I’m giving a talk at Skills Matter entitled: “Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner, Spy!” In the extreme this means developers never get to meet, talk to or understand the people and businesses that will be using the product. However, it was another problem that was on my mind more when I thought up the talk: the confusion of roles between Business Analysts and Product Managers, made worse by the appearance of the Scrum Product Owner title. think there are a number of problems on this side of the business. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, April 15, 2013 - The final sustainable edge
In a process network a variety of different companies come together to produce a product. Nike and Cisco are examples of closed networks maintain networks for their own products. So, for example, lower wages mean a higher manager-to-worker ration so managers can spend more time helping the worker develop, e.g. feedback, coaching, etc. I’ve finished reading “The Only Sustainable Edge” by Johns Hagel and Seely Brown. See 20 August , and 18 August.) can agree with that central argument. In fact, I can imagine a lot of people agreeing with that statement. m not sure of this. Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, September 4, 2005 - Lean Question and Answer
The strictest definition of Lean Development would be to say it is a methodology proposed by the Poppendiecks ( Lean Software Development )based on lean manufacturing and product development. Another definition of Lean (Software) Development is that it is the application of the principles of Lean Manufacturing ( The Machine That Changed the World, Womack, Jones & Roo ) and "Knowledge Based Product Development" ( Product Development for the Lean Enterprise, Kennedy ). The practices support learning and change but change is not a rational thing. Slowly. Slowly. Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, March 14, 2007 %>
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