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The project that I mentioned back in October, now called AccuWorkflow, has just been announced this week! You can also learn more about it here. While the connection to Agile Development may not

A comment from "AMWOP" states: "Unfortunately while progressive developers may want to work in an Agile fashion the ecosystem around them is frequently fighting against being Agile. Executives, Customers, Testers,

The Agile Manifesto claims that the benefits of Agile Development come in part from "People over Process". That never sat quite right with me, but I could never put my

Some of my more recent thinking on software development, especially in regards to Agile Development, is in an article in the October issue of Queue Magazine, entitled "Breaking the Major Release Habit."

If you've read any of my previous posts, the title of this post might make you think my blog has been hacked and somebody else is now posting in my

Previously, I wrote "After all, isn't the fundamental reason for software the automation of manual processes? Why in the world should software developers ever have to resort to keeping track

SD Times recently published my article on leveraging your core competency (free registration required). In a recent posting, CollabNet is apparently attempting to reframe the article - which is fundamentally about leveraging an

From time to time, people ask "what is a Stream?" At this point pretty much anybody associated with software development has heard of branches, but streams are a relatively new

Although it may be an overreaction, what is it a reaction to? Many statistics show that even today, most software projects fail. It seems reasonable to believe that many companies

I've been doing a lot of research and thinking about methodology recently. I also went to SD East this week (great show, great conference) where I was overloaded by Agile

Folks often ask "what is the best SCM tool" or "is there a comparison of SCM tools available." I would say that generic comparisons of SCM tools are sort of

I think the single most important part of Release Engineering (RE) is the principle of "act like this is for the release." There may be times that this is too extreme, but