Running around in the maze
Feb 24 2008
Johannes Brodwall has a perspective on writing a fixed price bid. It sound intriguing, but I am a bit hesitant wether it would work. Of course you would get something delivered, but with the very formal bidding processes I have experienced I would imagine the customer just would say that you didn’t answer the request [...]
Feb 24 2008
When doing Agile development identifying and eliminating waste is a important practice. There is many things to eliminate, but one of the usual remedies is to automate a manual and error prone task. In my experience it is worth spending a lot of time automating tasks, not just because it saves time but because it [...]
Feb 23 2008
InfoQ summarizes a couple of blog entries discussing what responsibility we have as good developers when the customer asks you to take a shortut. They’ve put the word agile in there too, but regardless of agile or not this is important issues. In short there are two views:
Say no. You can’t allow anyone to do [...]
Feb 23 2008
It’s moving both organisationally and in features. It is one of the first AJAX experiences I had, and it really does solve the Javascript to Java and back problems in a clean and easy way.
Shortly summed up it generates Javascript from your Java classes (that you configure it to expose) and lets you call them [...]
Feb 21 2008
Nati Shalom has a good post on why tier based architectures doesn’t scale, and a good analogy to use if you need to explain it to someone.
He points to some very important issues, and uses an analogy of producing coca-cola. The scaling promise with multi tiered applications also seems like it has focused on scaling [...]
Feb 05 2008
It might not be news, but it was to me. Seems like Sutherland and Schwaber is working on a new book titled The Scrum Papers (link to draft pdf). Havn’t had a real good lok yet, but should be a good read.
Feb 05 2008
New project and new challenges. I’ll get back to that later though. Henrik Kniberg has a nice sheet with Scrum practices available. It’s a good start for anyone doing or just starting Scrum.