Coveros

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In a previous post , Mike Sowers asked readers to think about where they were in February of 2001 at the inception of the Agile Manifesto. EVP Mike Sowers was helping organizations transform their software testing capabilities at a privately-held software engineering firm.

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. Teams released software early and often.

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Coveros

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

How remarkable that the simple set of principles embodied in the Agile Manifesto agreed to by the 17 pioneers in 2001 drove the vast and generally-positive change we’ve seen over these two decades. A grassroot change initiative that moved the industry; Agile grew out of the vast frustration experienced by software practitioners at the time.

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Coveros

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Rather than planning, analyzing, and designing for the far-flung future, XP programmers do all of these activities—a little at a time—throughout development.” I was searching for something related to software engineering and stumbled across a paper on Extreme Programming (XP) by Kent Beck. Embracing change.

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Wolk Software Engineering

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

We have managed to identify and document the main risks involved in developing software products. We have developed Software Development Methodologies (SDMs) and other principles that allow us to mitigate some of these risks. Together they published the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Software engineering productivity cant be measured. Its a big spreadsheet which describes each title in our engineering organization, along with the skills required to reach each title. For example, Associate Software Engineers are hired fresh out of university. So I told the truth. How am I measuring productivity?

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Allstacks

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

These "Death Marches," as they are often referred to in project management, left their mark on many engineers. So it was no surprise when engineers declared independence from this old world of software development in 2001 with "The Agile Manifesto."

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LeanEssays

JANUARY 21, 2016

Big Data In 2001 Doug Cutting released Lucene, a text indexing and search program, under the Apache software license. It’s not that these strategies are unknown, it’s that they must become common practice for all software engineers in the organization. There is no such thing as maintenance – or maybe it's all maintenance.”

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Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We didn’t learn in 2001 or 2008. It can potentially be more transformative than many of the technologies we depend on for software development today. In this (longer) post, I will share links to the blog posts from 2022 that I think are recommendation worthy. I’ve broken it into sections based on content.

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LeanEssays

JUNE 5, 2015

Thus instead of copying lean manufacturing practices, lean product development practices must evolve from a deep understanding of fundamental lean principles adapted to a development environment. Lean Software Development: A Subset of Lean Product Development In 1975, computers were large, expensive, and rare.

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2020

Every week, we look at software engineering topics, and this week, I have a special show for you. I’m going to be reading from the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development. In the 1990s, software development was believed to be in crisis. They actually called it that: “The Software Crisis.”

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James Shore

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

In the 20 years after the Agile freight train roared into software developers’ conscious, the number of companies calling themselves “Agile” increased by orders of magnitude. In the 1990s, software development was believed to be in crisis. They actually called it that: “The Software Crisis.” What Is Agile?

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