Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Thanks to everyone who attended my talk this evening. I had an awesome time and loved the amount of enthusiasm and the great questions. As you may have noticed… there’s a lot of material to cover. Here’s some references to more content which adds depth. If you have any ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams, Events, Large teams, San Francisco
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
Looks like I’ll be speaking in San Francisco in February on the 22nd. Using Agile with Large, Geographically Dispersed Development Teams Distributed and large scale development are a fact of life for many teams. Unfortunately most agile methodologies or approaches assume that ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams, Events, Large teams, San Francisco
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
While supposedly on vacation and sitting on a beach in Jamaica I finally got around to reading a couple of books that haven’t quite made it to the top of the stack. This is largely thanks to the lack of slack and impending annual performance reviews. More on that later… ...
Tags: agile, Books, Large teams
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
In the beginning there was The Plan. The Planner looked upon The Plan and saw that it was good. A prioritized Product Backlog and accompanying Release Plan for the whole of the next release of BigApp 3.0. Enough work to keep hundreds of people busy for the next eighteen ...
Tags: agile, Large teams, Metaphors
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
When Nachiappan Nagappan from Microsoft Research (MSR) showed some of the results from his paper at the p&p Summit I pretty much had to check it out.
THE INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE ON SOFTWARE QUALITY: AN EMPIRICAL CASE STUDY
- Nachiappan Nagappan, Brendan Murphy & Victor R. Basili
The MSR team examined the ...
Tags: Large teams, p&p, p&p Summit 2008
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Thanks everyone who attended my talk today at Agile Development Practices 2008. The PDF of the slide deck is available for download and includes some additional speaker notes. This talk was based on two papers; Agility and the Inconceivably Large and Distributed Agile Development at patterns & practices which ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams, Events, Florida, Large teams
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
As previously noted I'm going to be in Florida next week speaking at Agile Development Practices 2008 on Thursday afternoon (session details). It looks like there's a great lineup of speakers for the conference... and then there's me. Here's the abstract for my talk... Scaling Agile Up and Out: ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams, Events, Florida, Large teams
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
Bugs! How do you handle fixing bugs and enhancement requests on an existing release of your product while your team(s) are working on the next release? Typically as you start work on a new version of your product there will be bugs or enhancement requests coming in from users of ...
Tags: agile, Large teams, Proven practices, Scrum
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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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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
If you've been in software a while a lot of the time your gut starts to tell you that something feels wrong before you figure out exactly why. This year's Agile 2008 conference gave me several insights into why some things I've had deep reservations about are wrong in a ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams, Events, Large teams, Toronto
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