Agile2008: The natural laws of software development
Via
InfoQ.
At Agile2008 I watched Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson talk about the natural laws of software development.
Deriving agile practices from first principles could help people see beneath the practices to understand why they are done and why they are done like they are.
But, how many developers are truly capable of achieving the levels of discipline, craftsmanship and ethics and the necessary level of rigour to use these practices to great effect? Can this stuff really be coached to anyone or only those with an aptitude for it? Regardless, getting people to first understand the 'why' is definitely a step worth taking.
Labels: agile practices, agile2008, chet hendrickson, ron jeffries
Links to this post
Show me the running tested features
Ron Jeffries said if you get
running tested features in front the customer/users they'll start using it. If you get running tested features in front of the customer/users every week there comes a time when they say, "Hey, we can actually start using this now". We experienced this at one of our clients. We put running tested features in front of the customer at the end of the first week. They loved it. After 9 weeks they were pleasantly shocked at the richness and coherence of the running tested features available and decided to 'go alpha'. After 15 weeks they were ecstatic and decided to 'go beta'. After 18 weeks they decided to make it official and removed the beta badge.
The Business should always be saying "Show me the running tested features".
Labels: agile2008, ron jeffries, running tested features
Links to this post
