Archive for August, 2008
Friday, August 29th, 2008
During the distributed agile workshop at Agile 2008 there was some discussion of Conway's Law (named after Melvin Conway). Conway's law basically says
Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it.
So distributing your team not only effects its communication dynamics adds dysfunction, it also may impact the actual ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams, Large teams, Scrum
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Now we've got Agile 2008 out of the way it's time to think about the next thing. For me it's Agile Development Practices 2008 in Florida, November 10-14. I'll be speaking on Thursday afternoon on some of my experiences at Microsoft with large and distributed teams. Scaling Agile ...
Tags: Events, Florida, Microsoft, p&p
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
I happened to come across the following code the other day. string cost = "FR" + "E" + "E"; // bad perf = true J
Which, after my performance investigation the other day, got me wondering again. Is there performance really going to be ...
Tags: C#, Coding, Performance
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
A final addition to the Scrum Bestiary. Yes, I know I promised that we were done but no sooner had I said that than Bob, one of the p&p developers, said "But what about...". It's the weekend so something a little off the wall is OK. We all know ...
Tags: agile, Scrum
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
I've added a page of slide decks for talks I've given over the past couple of years. I'll be adding more when I get more time.
Tags: Events, Proven practices
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