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Coffee Notes: 7 IT Career Rules Worth Breaking
Posted by cgrant in Career Development, Coffee Notes, Technology on January 21, 2011
Here’s a great quick read about some career myths that maybe you should avoid.
Dave Willmer really hit the nail on the head with these 7 tips. More than one I need to work on still :)
7 IT Career Rules Worth Breaking via CIO.com – Continuing Education by Dave Willmer <info@cio.com> on 8/1/10
Sometimes sticking to the status quo can actually hinder your career success. Dave Willmer offers some suggestions to help you keep your IT career moving forward.
Coffee Notes: How to Build an Agile Dev Team – The GE Way
Posted by cgrant in Coffee Notes, Management, Teams, Technology on January 11, 2011
“Building software in a waterfall approach, where there is a big milestone release at the end of the process, isn’t conducive to success in the modern world, according to top executives from the NYSE and GE.” –Kerner
This article by Sean Michael Kerner reviews interviews with Robert Kerner, vice-president at New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and Matt Merchant, CTO, GE Corporate on software development practices in their companies.
An interesting and view on what happens when leaders “get it”.
Coffee Notes: Negotiating Scrum Through Watefall
Posted by cgrant in Agile, Coffee Notes, Management, Technology on January 10, 2011
Here’s an interesting article about how to really deal with many of the challenges faced when dealing with Waterfall cultures and new Agile concepts. In his article Phil Southward lists out many of the key SDLC phases as well as how Agile teams can work through them in a wartefall organization. qaheaven (@qaheaven)10/21/10 2:38 AM Negotiating #Scrum Through a Waterfallhttp://bit.ly/aE86Zt |
http://www.scrumalliance.org/articles/189-negotiating-scrum-through-a-waterfall
Coffee Notes: Seven Wastes of Software Development
Posted by cgrant in Coffee Notes, Development, Productivity, Technology on January 4, 2011
Here’s an interesting article on the Seven Wastes of Software Development
In the article, Matt Stine, discusses the concepts of eliminating waste, first as it was presented in the Toyota Production System then expanding the idea into the world of software development. This series discusses Mary and Tom Poppendieck’s mapping of Shigeo Shingo’s “Seven Wastes of Lean Manufacturing” into the software development world.
Stine proposes the seven Wastes of Software development include:
- Partially Done Work Waste
- Extra Features Waste
- Relearning Waste
- Handoffs Waste
- Delays Waste
- Task Switching Waste
- Defects
It’s really a good read. You should take a moment to check it out:
http://mattstine.com/2010/11/10/the-seven-wastes-of-software-development/
Coffee Notes: Offshore 280% more defects
Posted by cgrant in Coffee Notes, Development, Management, Productivity, Technology on November 21, 2010
The other day I came across this stat and it was so interesting I wanted to followup on it before I forwarded it on. According to Michael Mah at the Cutter Consortium offshore IT creates 280% more defects than industry average. Ian Savage reports on Twitter about Mah’s research noting that the industry average of 242 defects is blown away by offshore defects averaging 677. This results in 280% more defects when development originates offshore.
Michael Mah is a Managing Partner of QSM Associates, Inc., a firm specializing in software measurement, project estimation, and “in-flight” control for both inhouse and outsourced/offshore development. QSM has developed and maintains one of the largest databases of more than 7,500 completed projects collected worldwide, with productivity statistics and trends on cost, schedule, and quality from more than 500 organizations and 18 countries.
Additional References:
- http://www.quicksolutions.com/Libraries/TFS2010Event/QSI_Agile_Symposium_WebVersion_1.sflb.ashx
- http://www.yourdonreport.com/index.php/2007/02/13/michael-mah-offshore-developed-software-projects-have-28x-as-many-bugs-as-average-software-projects/
Mah: Defect delta for #offshore sw dev: 280% more defects:
Industry avg: 242
Offshore avg: 677#agile #pnsqc #roi—
ian e. savage (@iesavage) October 19, 2010
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