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Your development process (regardless of how it is implemented), is also part of your work environment. If as a result of your development process you regularly end up redoing work

There are really only five ways to increase the profitability of a business based on software development: reduce costs via outsourcing, reduce headcount, reduce other expenses, increase productivity or increase

When choosing how to allocate resources, it can be difficult to do an effective cost benefit analysis in a short period of time. A technique that I stumbled upon is

There was a developer that worked for me once, I’ll call him George. He wrote a lot of really good code. But one day he decided he wanted to make

Stand-up meetings are a great way to reduce delays in communicating important information. Another benefit of stand up meetings is the elimination of time-wasting status and progress meetings. Stand up

In a traditional project, the demand for resources from the four major aspects of software development see-saws dramatically over the course of a project. These aspects are project management and

The first stage in adopting Agile is Preparing for the Transition to Agile. The next stage is to make some early and measurable progress to encourage adoption. As it is, you

Once, when I was just starting to snowboard, I was at Sugarloaf for the weekend and they had very little cover and very few trails open. But then Saturday night,

Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends As Helmuth von Moltke (the Elder) said, “No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.” In the case of software development, the “enemy”

As part of the book that I am working on, "Zero to Agile in 90 Days or Less" I decided to include some case studies to illustrate how Agile is

Agile 2008 - August 4th - 8th I will be doing three sessions at Agile 2008 in Toronto. If you are going, I hope you will consider attending one of my sessions.

In Part I, I talked about how the design of a Lego car that can transform into a robot illustrates the process of iterative design. At the beginning of the project,