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Can You Afford the Software You are Developing?
A reader of The Agile Executive brought up some questions about product retirement in the context of project teams that use Agile methods. For example: Should a product backed by a hyper-productive...
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“How do we move towards an agile procurement or agile development methodology?”
Colleague and friend Annie Shum sent me the following excerpt from U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra’s Friday keynote talk at the University of Maryland’s CIO Forum: Questioned on whether service-oriented...
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Turning the “Law of Software Physics” Upside Down
Next week, Michael Mah will be presenting new quantitative data on software productivity, cost, time-to-market and quality. Here is an excerpt from the announcement of his talk: Many companies are...
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How to Combine Development Productivity Data with Software Quality Metrics
Consider the situation described in Should You Invest in This Software: One of your portfolio companies expects to ship 500K lines of code in 6 months. The company asks for additional $2M to complete...
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How Many Metrics do You Need to Effectively Govern the Software Process?
A Simple Metrics-Driven Software Governance Framework Based on Jim Highsmith’s Agile Triangle Framework In my recent Cutter Blog post entitled Three Governance Metrics I recommended using just three...
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Technical Debt at Cutter
No, this post is not about technical debt we identified in the software systems used by the Cutter Consortium to drive numerous publications, events and engagements. Rather, it is about various...
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A Devops Case Study
An outline of my forthcoming Agile 2010 workshop was given in the post “A Recipe for Handling Cultural Conflicts in Devops and Beyond” earlier this week. Here is the case study around which the...
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The Real Cost of One Trillion Dollars in IT Debt: Part II – The Performance...
Some of the business ramifications of the $1 trillion in IT debt have been explored in the first post of this two-part analysis. This second post focuses on “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of...
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Technical Debt: Assessment and Reduction
Below is the detailed outline for my August 8, 1:30-5:00PM Technical Debt Workshop in Agile 2011. I look forward to meeting you and interacting with you in the conference before, during and after this...
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