Archive for June, 2008

Intelligent tracking

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Software lore is rife with Project Management analogies. One of my favorite compares tracking a software project to navigating the ocean by dead reckoning. Two commonalities emerge:

if you don’t know where you go, you don’t know when you get to your destination, and

if you don’t track your progress, you don’t know which way you are [...]

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Agile vs. rigid software development

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Like for a front page article in a newspaper, the key challenge when posting on a blog is to find the right title. What is the opposite of agile? Looking at antonyms, you will find terms such as awkward, clumsy or stiff. They do not seem appropriate opposite terms for what this post is about: agile software development. [...]

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