Comments on: Tooling is a Third Order Effect

By: Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft Updated | #2782 - Thinking about agile (small 'a') software development, patterns and practices for building Microsoft .NET applications.

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:49:53 +0000

[...] the People, Process, Tools triangle. Distributed teams tend to rely on tools more than teams working in the same room because tooling [...]

By: When Tools Take Over Your Team Room | #2782 - Thinking about agile (small 'a') software development, patterns and practices for building Microsoft .NET applications.

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:32:55 +0000

[...] were some good comments on my Tooling is a Third Order Effect post a few weeks ago. Tools and how they effect a team’s software development activities is [...]

By: Ade Miller

Ade Miller — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:13:22 +0000

sytelus,

Good point, although a tool rarely embodies all aspects of a software development process/methodology. It does highlight the a key point. Your tool(s) had better be aligned with your process.

Ade

By: sytelus

sytelus — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:09:37 +0000

Tool is a concrete form of a process. Think about it.

By: Eric Smith

Eric Smith — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:02:04 +0000

So the bottom line is: people over process over tools. Well, yes … but isn’t that fairly self-evident?

Ironically I had discussion about this exact thing this evening with a colleague. Although the inverted triangle pictogram conveys alot, I don’t think it goes far enough. What we’re looking for is something considerably more exaggerated in favour of people.