Greg Wilson links to an interesting academic paper from IEEE:
Read MoreWe find that factors such as requirements refinement, task dependencies, organizational alignment and organizational politics are perceived to have the greatest impact on on-time delivery, whereas proxy measures such as project size, number of dependencies, historical delivery performance and team familiarity can help explain a large degree of schedule deviations. We also discover hierarchical interactions among factors: organizational factors are perceived to interact with people factors, which in turn impact technical factors.
Mike Bland has a new presentation out on software quality:
Read MoreWe’ll discuss why internal software quality matters, why it’s often unappreciated and sacrificed, and what we can do to improve it. More to the point, we’ll discuss the importance of instilling a quality culture to promote the proper mindset first. Only on this foundation will seeking better processes, better tools, better metrics, or AI-generated test cases yield the outcomes we can live with.
A new trend I have noticed dining out is the rise of the kitchen fee. While the rationale for the fee is reasonable, its implementation is unfair and deceptive to consumers. With no method to opt-out, it is false advertising, meant to lure consumers into thinking they will spend less than they are.
Read MoreYesterday Waldo Jaquith wrote an insightful post about what federal agencies need to do before hiring an agile vendor. It warns:
Read MoreYou don’t want to do all of the hard work of procuring a top-notch scrum team only to send them face-first into a brick wall of bureaucracy. You’ll lose all of the momentum, lose the best members of the team, waste $40,000/week, and when the project finally starts it will be with a demoralized team.