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Agile
A sad Cobol story
This isn’t a happy story, it has no happy ending, I suffered personally, its personal but I want to share.…
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Software Development
Technical Liabilities and not Technical Debt
My last – frustrated – post finished with this line: “banks are collecting technical debt the way they used to…
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Agile
Conclusion: Agile & ERP, part 5
The story so far… Agile & ERP? The Good News about Agile & ERP ERP Culture v. Agile Culture Th…
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Agile
The Bad News: Agile & ERP, part 4
The story so far… Part 1: Agile & ERP introduced Part 2: Good News: Agile can work with ERP! Part…
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Agile
Culture problems: Agile & ERP part 3
I suggested some cultural problems with software development in an ERP setting in my second post on Agile and ERP,…
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Agile
The Good News – Agile & ERP, part 2
First the good news: there is a lot of Agile practices which work just fine in an ERP environment. These…
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Software Development
Software development is upside down
In the software development world a number of common management maxims need to be reversed if one is to be…
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Agile
Surge or pivot? – notes on failure
Failure is good. We learn from failure. Failure is learning; the information content of a failure may be more than the…
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Software Development
Using cost of delay to determine schedule
“When does the business need it?” is far more important than “When will the developers have it ready?”. Business needs…
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