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discontinuous integration
Today I discovered that the corporate software development process here is iterative! Which means that there’s an “iterative” design/code phase, followed by an “iterative” integration/test phase… (This...
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late feedback
This project has been running since July. It’s now the day before the ‘development complete’ milestone for part of the system, and all that remains is to show it to the users and get them to sign off...
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the missing piece
This week I was co-opted to act as a temporary project manager for three weeks while someone’s on holiday. I’ve spent much of the week shadowing the PM I’m replacing, and it’s now 4:15 on Friday...
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give him what he wants
This week I started on my first proper project here. I’m coming in just after the completion of the bid, which was accepted last week by the GoldOwner. My job is to set up the project and run it on...
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a second pair of eyes
I’ve just been working with a team which has a pairing policy: every item of code must have been seen by two pairs of eyes before it can be checked in. It doesn’t work. The effect of the policy is to...
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ohno it isn’t
I’m proud to announce that my experience report “Lean Waterfalling the Toyota Way – using Fagan Inspections to Stop the Line” has been accepted for the Waterfall 2006 conference!
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half-baked
In Oracle Fusion half way done? Pete Behrens is astounded that Oracle can claim to have Fusion “halfway” done. Me too. In the eweek article that Pete refers to, Oracle president Charles Phillips said:...
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can downstream testing ever be the bottleneck?
Everywhere I go I find managers complaining that some team or other is short of staff; and (so far) that has always turned out to be a mirage. TOC’s 5 Focusing Steps say that adding resources to the...
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downstream testers: better is worse
This week I’ve been reflecting on why it is that some “agile” teams seem to really fly, while others never seem to get out of second gear. Part of the answer, at least in the teams I’ve looked at, lies...
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downstream testing implies a policy constraint
As usual, it takes me multiple attempts to figure out what I really want to say, and how to express myself. Here’s a bit more discussion of what I believe is implied by downstream testing: The very...
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