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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. [...]
Antony Marcano is a consultant in software craftsmanship, effective software processes, software quality and software testing. He has over fifteen years experience with... 