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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