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Agile

Technical Stories in Agile Software Development

January 13, 2010
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I just read this interesting post on technical stories by Jack Milunsky.  In the article he addresses the question of “Should technical stories appear on the product backlog for a Scrum project?”  For billable client projects, a related question exists of “Are technical stores billable to the client?”
The answer to both of these questions is [...]

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Workflow – Minimally Marketable Features

January 5, 2010
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As I described in the overview of Our New Development Process, the MMF (Minimally Marketable Feature) workflow is the customer facing portion of our development process.  Our changes in this area have had the biggest impact upon our clients, and have met a positive response.  It has allowed us to isolate our clients from the [...]

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Our New Development Process

December 23, 2009
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In Agile Development for Tiny Teams, I presented an overview of our original development and project management process. I highlighted a number of challenges we encountered by using it. Thanks to Jon Stahl, Josh and I were exposed to the application of Kanban to the software development process. I was convinced that [...]

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Eliminating Waste from your Agile Process

December 15, 2009
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A central pillar of a lean software development process is elimination of waste. So what is “waste” in a software development process? In a manufacturing process, any amount of work in process above the bare minimum to meet production levels is waste. Keith Swenson recently wrote an an excellent article “Taiichi Ohno [...]

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Agile Development for Tiny Teams

December 4, 2009
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D-I is proud to be a tiny firm. We have always been a tiny firm, but we haven’t always been able to get big projects accomplished. While we do use subcontractors quite often, the firm is still just Josh and myself.
We believe that software should be high quality. It should be efficient, [...]

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Asymptotic Perfection

September 8, 2009
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Remember way back to high school when our algebra teachers would send us home to graph asymptotes?  (Ah, those were the days)  In case you don’t remember what an asymptote is, it is essentially any math equation in which it’s result will continually approach a value, without ever reaching that value.   My software development [...]

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