The Never-Ending Quest of Searching for Improvement
Software development is not just technical decisions. This blog entries of the Processes category describes my views about the non technical aspects of software development. Even though I am not a huge fan of the word process, it is still probably the best term to describe the content you will find here.
Today I was asked, how the concerns mentioned in a sprint retrospective meetings can be transferred to concrete results. I am hardly a Scrum expert, but I have got some experience working as a member of a Scrum team. Thus, I decided to explain, what kind of methods I would use for obtaining maximum benefits [...]
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In my previous article called: Quality Management of Software Projects, Part 2: Preemptive Strike, I described the quality management actions, which reduce or eliminate quality problems of a software project, when taken before the project is started. This entry describes the quality assurance methods, which should be used during the implementation phase of a software [...]
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In my previous article, I introduced a definition for software quality, and described the challenges caused by a conflict of interest between different stakeholders. As promised, this article will describe preemptive measures, which reduces or eliminates quality problems of a software project, when taken before the project is actually “started”. Cooperation between the members of [...]
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As reported by Computer Business Review Online, the results of the latest Standish Group report are devastating. According to the Standish Group, the number of last year’s software project failures were the highest in five years. This makes me wonder, whether there is something essentially wrong with the way project management and quality management is [...]
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Agile has become THE buzzword in the software development industry. It seems to be used almost everywhere, and some lost souls even argue that might be the closest thing of the silver bullet we have seen yet. And if you spend your days listening to sales presentations, you might be under the impression that the [...]
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