All About Agile
Kelly Waters has just informed me that All About Agile will be aggregating from a number of blogs, thereby better living up to its title. It’s one more way we can share ideas and help each other.
Month: February 2011
When something persists, some reward exists
Jason Gorman has just written a piece in defense of Software Craftsmanship that highlights how very dependent our world has become on software. He offers Gorman’s Law Of Software-Dependent Business Evolution:
Software-dependent businesses can only evolve as fast as their ability to write and evolve their software allows them to.
I think this is not only true, but an incredible opportunity for businesses that understand that. Let’s face it: most businesses spend an awful lot of time for a very meager increase in systems capability. Companies that do better than average can shoot to the top. Look at the spectacular successes of some of the relatively young internet companies, for examples. Read More
It is possible to fail in many ways
On Twitter, Alfonso Guerra (@Huperniketes) asked me, “Okay, tell me how [software] quality will improve by prog[rammer]s taking more resp[onsibility] for quality?” My response is longer than 140 characters, so I’m replying here.
For background, my involvement in the conversation started when he caught my eye with
The problem with the Software Craftsmanship movement is its attempt to create a race of superprogrammers who can save [software] from bad [project management].
Well, I don’t know anyone promoting Software Craftsmanship who thinks that. Read More