Posts Tagged Software engineering
This is not a manifesto: Valuing Throughput over Utilisation
Posted by AntonyMarcano in Agile, Lean, Project Management, Software Development, Software Testing on February 11, 2012
In a previous article, This is not a manifesto, I expressed the values I hold as a software development team member. Today, I’m going to talk about the first of these values. Before I do, I’d like to say what I mean by “software development team”. I mean a cross-discipline team with the combined skills [...]
Old Favourite: Adaptive Budgets? “Pull” the other one!
Posted by AntonyMarcano in Business, Old Favourites, Project Management, Software Development on December 13, 2010
This was originally posted on my old blog on 10th April 2010 Recently, I wrote about my views on using and estimating with task-cards. I highlighted that tracking progress with burn-up/down charts showing effort completed/remaining is not a true measure of progress, especially if we subscribe to the idea that we measure progress with working-software. [...]
Old Favourite: Taking Repetition To Task
Posted by AntonyMarcano in BDD/ATDD, Business Analysis, Old Favourites, Project Management, Software Development, Software Testing on December 13, 2010
This originally appeared on my old blog on 16th March 2010… Others have talked about the virtues of stories as vertical slices of a problem (end-to-end capabilities) rather than horizontal slices (system layers or components). So, if we slice the problem with user stories, how do we slice the user-stories themselves? If, as I sometimes [...]
Antony Marcano is a consultant in software craftsmanship, effective software processes, software quality and software testing. He has over fifteen years experience with... 