Here’s a new interview with Tom and Mary Poppendieck on the topic of lean software development. Thanks to Rickard Johansson for the tip! Around 25 minutes into the interview, the topic of RUP appears. Tom points out the amount of knowledge available in the RUP, but also how it has often been implemented with a […]
Author Archives: Tobias Fors
Custom Searching From Inside the Browser
Ever notice that little search box up in the corner in Firefox and Explorer? Of course you have. You’ve probably used it dozens of time to search for stuff on the web, probably using Google. You may have noticed that you can also search using many other search engines from this field, and that you […]
Mary Poppendieck on “Competing on the Basis of Speed”
In a new clip on Google Video, Mary Poppendieck talks about lean software development on the topic of competing on the basis of speed.
Ron Jeffries on Running Tested Features
In this video on InfoQ, Ron Jeffries talk about agile software development. What is worth pointing out is how he emphasises the similarities between the different agile methods. One difference between how Ron explains things, and how Ken Schwaber does it, though, lies in the graphing of the growth of features. When Ken draws the […]
The Power of Closure
I have a new short article up on the Scrum Alliance site, where I look at Scrum from the perspective of closure. Don’t miss this weekly column, where good little articles pop up every now and then. Last week’s was by Ken Schwaber on the topic of sprint reviews.
Workshop: Testdriven utveckling och refaktorering
Magnus Ljadas på Citerus håller snart en tvådagarsworkshop på temat testdriven utveckling och refaktorering. Missa inte detta tillfälle att förstärka din förmåga att hantera dessa kraftfulla verktyg!
Requirements: Still Need to Handle Them, Post-Agile
Many problems we’ve traditionally had with understanding, communicating and implementing solutions for user’s needs are reduced or go away as agile development lets us shift our focus from requirements documents to frequent conversations about actual, current, needs. Still, these things in no way mean that we should stop thinking about requirements, even written ones. We’ll […]
The Power of Closure
Have you ever watched an episode of, say, Prison Break, and noticed how they stop for commercials just when the action is most intense? Of course you have. Those moments are called cliffhangers. You are literally left hanging for a while, and that’s a situation you want to get out of. Psychologists have a name […]
Slides – Am I Agile Now? Öredev 2006
Yesterday, I spoke on the topic of agile software development at the Öredev conference. Here are the slides from that talk.
Positive Reviews Just In
I’m glad to read that Henrik Mårtensson, whose interests and knowledge I have come to respect through the reading of his blog (and even more now that I’ve met him in person), enjoyed a recent Scrum Kickstart I facilitated, and he participated in: “It is rare to meet someone that can talk about the same […]