For efforts were I've seen Agile, a good close to true Agile Process in place, I've seen solid progress and generally good success. Everything else has generally been a complete failure. Schedules aren't met, money objectives are screwed up, projections are lost, quality is crap, and the list goes on. When I say Agile I... Continue reading →

CIOs think developers suck. Developers want CIOs to get a clue about Agile. Why the CIO is clueless. These articles are really good, and for a project lead, CIO, developer, or anyone in the industry they should read this. I have to say I couldn't relate at all to why CIOs think developers are clueless.... Continue reading →

Ben_Hall Another great quote – "I would only do TDD or unit testing if I cared about my code quality". – Excellent so you don't care at the moment? about 11 hours ago from web caseorganic The reason Twitter works is because the question "What are you doing" is never fully answered. about 20 hours... Continue reading →

I'm currently working extensively on a Windows Application that has a heavy Office Excel UI requirement. I've done a fair bit of work on XP with Visual Studio 2008 and a fair bit on Vista with Visual Studio 2008. The following are some of my current rants, about the completely asinine things that have happened... Continue reading →

So lean and agile are very similar, for all practical purposes the same thing. I know this, I've studied them enough to be very aware of the fact. To this end it appeared funny to me that Martin Fowl, and a follow up by Chris Sims, wrote articles about the fact that these things are... Continue reading →