Technoetic

Agile coach and trainer Mishkin Berteig recently wrote a blog article called “The Seven Core Practices of Agile Work” where he highlighted the importance of effective (“powerful”) communication. I agree. In my experience, effective communication is often the most important factor in project success. However, my views about the nature of effective communication are different. [...]

James Shore wrote an interesting blog article called “Voluntary Technical Debt“. He and Dave Woldrich are developing a commercial service called cardmeeting.com to support distributed agile teams. Shore describes how he and Dave cut corners with their initial implementation, intended to be a “spike“, because of time pressure to demonstrate the software at the Agile [...]

People sometimes ask me why I write open source software in my spare time without being paid for it. It’s an interesting question that I sometimes also ask myself. There are quite a few reasons and I thought I’d describe some that probably also apply to many other open source developers. The following is a [...]

Although Agile testing techniques have helped us to create higher quality software, many software developers still spend significant amounts of time debugging their own or other people’s software. Some of the most difficult software to debug is code that has “evolved” over time in a mostly arbitrary way. The software is not well structured or [...]

Have you ever worked with someone who is proud of how well they fix problems or bugs… that they created in the first place! I’ve seen people who are quite successful with this strategy although it never ceases to amaze me. Unfortunately, I see agile practitioners do the same thing in the domain of planning [...]