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Review People Over Process

Henny Portman

Furthermore, neither agile or scrum contemplates how the agile team should be connected to a larger organization and to external partners who will likely have differing development processes and cadences. To download: QRC (Leadership for agility, 200725) v1.0. The book is divided into four sections. Conclusion.

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Is Macroeconomics and Social Science the Same as Software Development?

Herding Cats

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. Let's look at the thesis of Hayek in light of software development and the decisions that must be made when spending other people's money in the presence of uncertainty. Of course not.

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Questioning Agile Dogma

Leading Agile

In contrast, Edward Yourdon’s book, Death March: The Complete Software Developer’s Guide to Surviving ‘Mission Impossible’ Projects , describes the harm the death march pattern causes and advises software development teams on how to survive it. Survival is the best the teams can hope for.

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What’s Worse Than Not Automating Your Software Delivery Pipeline?

Leading Agile

They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. Try installing a typical business application on a pristine development environment. Watch the console as the tool downloads dependencies. The company wanted to automate their dispatching process.