Exploring Extreme Programming
Some teams doing incremental development can release whenever any new capability is ready. But what can you do when you need to control when capabilities are available? Consider the Backroom/Frontroom approach. The term “Backroom/FrontRoom” comes from the Gilb’s book Competitive Continue reading Backroom/Frontroom to Smooth Releases
For most problems, we have a choice: implement current needs only, or generalize the solution to more easily handle variations we expect to need in the future. The evolutionary design community refers to the latter approach as speculative generality, and Continue reading Speculative Generality
How do you handle delivery of new features or new systems? The easiest way is to just add the new features or replace the existing system, with no transition, but this is not the only approach. We’ll consider several strategies Continue reading Delivery Strategies
Portfolio perspective. Continue reading Project Portfolios and Agile
A way to track estimates. Continue reading Using Actuals with Estimates
How do you plan the overall shape of a project in XP? This article summarizes planning with little reference to the programming aspects of XP. Continue reading Agile Project Management, XP Style
Agile Estimating and Planning, Mike Cohn. Pearson Education, 2006. My back-cover review was “Mike Cohn explains his approach to Agile planning, and shows how ‘critical chain’ thinking can be used to effectively buffer both schedule and features. As with User Continue reading Review – Agile Estimating and Planning
There are a number of dimensions along which you can split stories. Continue reading Twenty Ways to Split Stories
Software by Numbers, Mark Denne and Jane Cleland-Huang. Prentice-Hall, 2004. An MMF – “minimal marketable feature” – represents a unit of functionality that has value. This book shows how incremental delivery and incremental funding of MMFs can work together to Continue reading Review – Software by Numbers
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, 2/e, by Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004. ISBN 0321278658. Kent Beck’s new introduction to the practices and philosophy of XP. See an extended summary. (Reviewed Feb., ’05)