In my previous post, Avoiding Iteration Zero, I suggested starting with “the one obvious thing that needs to be done? (Hint: it’s not ‘login.’)” As Jon Kern has recently mentioned, this same topic has come up elsewhere.
I was also in that list discussion.
Jon is, of course, right in a narrow sense. You can start with login, if you want. You can also start with an Iteration Zero. (Or,...
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Teams new to Agile often realize that they have a lot to do before they get their new development process at full speed. Looking at this big and unknown hill in front of them, many...
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Michael Feathers has just written a post on The Carrying-Cost of Code: Taking Lean Seriously. He says,
No, to me, code is inventory. It is stuff lying around and it has substantial...
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. — Albert Einstein
Dave Rooney recently bemoaned on Twitter about how complicated people make things, pointing in...
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Like many words, we often use “iterative” and “incremental” quite loosely. I’m OK with that, until that lack of precision causes misunderstandings, disagreements, or misdirection...
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Jason Gorman has just written a piece in defense of Software Craftsmanship that highlights how very dependent our world has become on software. He offers Gorman’s Law Of Software-Dependent...
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On Twitter, Alfonso Guerra (@Huperniketes) asked me, “Okay, tell me how [software] quality will improve by prog[rammer]s taking more resp[onsibility] for quality?” My response...
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Dan North says that programming is a trade, and not a craft. I agree with him that it’s a trade, like plumbing and wiring. I’ve already disagreed with his definition...
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Dan North has created a bit of a stir with his declaration that programming is not a craft. Liz Keogh has agreed with him. The funny thing is that most of what they have to say is...
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Tonight, we attended a lecture by Rich Wilson about the 2008-2009 Vendee Globe, a race around the globe by solo sailors in 60 foot overgrown sailing dinghies. While many sailboat...
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The term Spike Solution is associated in my mind with the early days of Extreme Programming. I’m sure that it is built from prior ideas, as everything seems to be. If the term...
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Ron Jeffries has written a nice article on some of the effects, both positive and negative, of the Certified Scrum Master (CSM) program. On the positive side, he notes that it does...
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When I first discovered Extreme Programming a decade ago, I was a software developer wanting to produce the best, and best fitting, software that I could. In those days, it seems that...
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