Does Senior Management Really Care About Quality? "Sometimes," Bob mused, "It seems like senior management doesn't care about the quality of the systems we build. I wonder if they care about quality at all?"
"Oh, there is no question in my mind!" Sue assured him. "I know that they don't care. All they care about it hitting a schedule. They couldn't care less about how well the software works!"
Meanwhile, in the boardroom: "What's wrong with your people?" the COO barked at the CIO. "They can never seem to deliver a system the works right. Between the bugs that have to be fixed and the difficulty that people have with figuring out how to use it, I wonder if we might be better off using pencil and paper!" |
Alan S. Koch
September 20, 2006 |
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Seamless Integrated Tops Wishlist for CM/ALM Tool Suites There are a lot of CM/ALM solutions out there - so where are we headed? In my opinion, the future of CM/ALM will be defined by the level of tool suite integration, more than by any other factor in the 3rd and 4th Generations of tools. And basic "integration" will not cut it. Putting tools together into a single package with some glue and triggers to help the tools interact is helpful, but will fall short of market demand. "seamless integration" will be a requirement. No advance is more important to the next generation of CM tools. What about cost? What about ease-of-use? How about traceability? The answer is simple: first seamless integration, and the rest will follow. If you haven't seen a seamlessly integrated tool suite, you may not fully grasp this statement. But seamlessly integrated tools are the ones that will be dominant in the future. Let's look at why. |
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CASE STUDY: Band XI Distributing Agile Development Software development organizations have evolved to meet the challenges put forth by ever increasing complexity in both the problem spaces and the technologies applied. Unfortunately, the right people for a project may not all be located in the same city or at the same time. |
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Enterprise Agile Adoption: The Role of Audits Organization-wide continuous improvement programs that notably include an agile adoption and It compliance function can play a vital role in driving the levels of collaboration and reuse necessary to achieving scale. Audits can directly contribute to collaboration and knowledge reuse among agile teams. |
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Make: Sorting and Searching Ask Mr. Make covera two important topics for Makefile builders with a round up of techniques for sorting and searching inside Makefiles and on the file system. |
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Lightweight Code Reviews A Lightweight Alternative to Inspections In this article, we explore why almost no one does "proper" inspections and set up the case for lightweight peer code review. Try it. You'll like it! |
Jason Cohen
September 5, 2006 |
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Developing Sales Savvy You're a software professional, not a salesperson, right? But if you've ever tried to sell your ideas, proposals, or recommendations, you've used some sales savvy. The question isn't whether you are a salesperson, but rather how good a salesperson you are. In this article, Naomi Karten offers guidance and advice for selling your point of view. |
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Review Secrets: Asking Better Questions Payson Hall broke onto the software development scene as a maverick programmer, but his penchant for imposing his ideals onto others created more enemies than allies and sometimes detracted from product quality. In this week's column, a more experienced Payson recalls how he exchanged hubris for humility and shares lessons learned during his transformation that help him craft constructive reviews. |
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Agile SCM - Relating Patterns to OOD, TBD and POB Principles The authors look at SCM patterns and consider the relationships between those patterns and object-oriented design principles of version-control for task-based development (TBD). They then move on to explore SCM principles for codelines, branching and promotion—project-oriented branching (POB). |
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Do Your CM/ALM Tools Help Secure Your Development Assets? You're part of a very successful growing software company. As you approach the office one morning, fire trucks out front indicate that this is not business as usual. Fortunately, you have nightly off-site back-ups. Unfortunately, you'll need equipment, software, back-up recovery operations, and perhaps things can be back to normal in a few days with limited data loss. Or maybe you've noticed data problems creeping into your development repository ever since the recent round of layoffs. Or a hacker. Maybe there was a critical disk crash. Or maybe a new software release has introduced data inconsistency. There are many ways your development assets can be compromised. So you really need many avenues to secure them. Your CM and/or ALM suites are part of your development backbone - they must be up to the task of getting you back on your feet, the same day. |
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