The biggest waste in software is what we build and isn’t used. Since we can’t know in advance what will be a selling feature, we have to implement the feature, put it in the wild, and hope for the best. Wait, there’s more: Remember that everything we code comes with a maintenance cost, so it
Every now and then I go back to the army to give back, well something. And whenever I go I learn something new. This time, it was one week after my talk “It’s not that simple”. If it was the other way around, I’d have a couple more examples for the talk. Since time flows
I was reading Lior Friedman’s post about the agile research. He raises an interesting question: Why are agile studies coming from the exact science fields? After all, we don’t see groups of accountants doing a stand-up meeting every morning. The easy answer of course, that’s where they practiced mostly. We tend to look under the
In my last post, I warned against the dangers of the craftsmanship movement to itself. The main premise behind this warning is that business and developers don’t speak the same language. And since business has the upper hand, role power, money – business always wins. Martin Fowler’s post, Craftsmanship and the Crevasse, looks at the
I’ve witnessed a sort of agile/lean clash incident at our standup. Reviewing our kanban board, as tasks completed, others were left on the board. Instead of completing the tasks in progress, a developer decided to pick new tasks to work on, entering them into process. The Clash Agile promotes team empowerment. Developers are encouraged to
Heads-up: I’ve recently started looking more closely into lean and kanban. Expect more posts like this one. Typemock is a unique company. Developers’ work is similar to our customers’ work. And so, since day one, the developers have also been doing support work. Support calls have their own life cycle. That’s why usually they are
In my last post “What’s next for Agile?”, I talked about alignment between the development team and the business, from the customer focus perspective. As I was watching “Agile is dead, long live agile” presentation by Jeff Sutherland, from Oredev 2010, I felt I needed to add something. When does agile work? According to Jeff,
Yesterday I went to Agile Tour Israel. At the end of the day I was surprised, I didn’t think I’d enjoy it that much. Once again, being pessimistic saved the day! The event organizers did all they could to push agile and show it as mainstream. Cynical as I am, I was surprised to see