Tag Archives: agile

Breaking Up The Team

What would hap­pen if mid­way through the the NFL sea­son last year, the Pitts­burgh Steel­ers, stand­ing at 6 and 2 and lead­ing the AFC North, had decided that their foot­ball sea­son was over and dis­banded the team? Or what if they decided to move Big Ben to the train­ing squad because he was a prime …

May 14, 2009 – 9:05 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Programming | Tagged | Comments (3)

Is Agile The New Waterfall

I ran across this pre­sen­ta­tion claim­ing that agile is the new water­fall, that by fol­low­ing some method of agile dog­mat­i­cally, you are merely sub­sti­tut­ing one dogma for another and you have failed to gain any learn­ing or under­stand­ing. While this may very well be true in cer­tain cases, it reminds me of the open­ing line …

April 30, 2009 – 8:52 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Programming | Tagged | Comments (3)

Continuous Deployment

When Con­tin­u­ous Inte­gra­tion just isn’t hard­core enough. What an amaz­ing and fas­ci­nat­ing place that must be to work, an envi­ron­ment where dis­ci­pline to their process enables them to deploy code to pro­duc­tion up to 50 times a day. The scripts that mon­i­tor sta­tis­tics and per­form analy­sis on the result of the par­tial roll­out are inge­nious. But …

February 10, 2009 – 11:35 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Programming | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Team Rooms Aren’t That Agile

One of the tenets that agile pro­po­nents often tout as the best of the best is the team room. A team room is a cen­tral­ized loca­tion where the entire team works. Typ­i­cally, there are tons of white­boards around, a big space and the con­cept of per­sonal space is thrown out the win­dow if there hap­pens …

December 4, 2008 – 10:40 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Programming | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

Is Agile Gestalt?

Ken argues that Agile (big A or lit­tle, your choice) is Gestalt. From this con­clu­sion, he says that it’s a mis­take to dog­mat­i­cally fol­low a given process or pro­scribe par­tic­u­lar tools when we’re try­ing to imple­ment Agile and that instead, we should “…help remove orga­ni­za­tional and soci­o­log­i­cal blocks that pre­vent teams from employ­ing them.” While …

December 1, 2008 – 11:21 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Programming | Tagged , | Comments (2)