As Agile is seeing widespread adoption in many industry sectors, what about within government (public sector) organizations? Can Agile work within governments? What are some challenges and risks to watch out for? I’m giving a presentation on this topic Thursday, May 17th, 2012 at noon that aims to answer these questions and provide guidance based [...]
Posts made in 2012
Software architects have many responsibilities and expectations placed upon them which can be confusing to handle. For a while now I have been condensing these demands into a small set of metaphorical roles. I have found this helpful in staying true to my broader objectives as I move between tasks or problems. The role that [...]
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In I.T. there are a number of process-based certifications that organizations can obtain based on standards like ISO-9001, ITIL via ISO 20000, and CMMI. The process of qualifying for a certification is similar across these standards: the organization defines and/or revises their internal processes to comply with the requirements of the standard, documents these processes, [...]
I have recently been examining the overall package structure of a Java enterprise application. I discovered an easy way to visualize the dependencies between packages using two open source tools JDepend and Graphviz and a little glue code. JDepend analyzes compiled Java bytecode and determines dependencies and metrics between Java packages. These analysis results can [...]
No matter what method of software development a team uses, there will be times when the team struggles to meet planned milestones. The milestone could be completing committed stories for an iteration or reaching the feature-complete point in a release. The struggle to meet the milestone might be caused by any number of factors like [...]
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People from time to time ask me how I manage to write all the articles on my website despite having a family and a demanding full-time job. My simplistic, off-the-cuff answer is “one sentence at a time” :) Seriously, however, over the years I have developed a personal writing system that I would like to [...]
