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26 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

State of the economy is helping Agile development adoption

If you had some doubt about SCRUM and Agile development getting real in the software development world, here is an interesting chart showing the evolution of agile and SCRUM related job for the past 4 years. A picture is worth a thousand words and I guess this one clearly demonstrate a clear growing trend. We’re [...]

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19 July 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Avoid bankruptcy ! Manage your technical debt.

The term technical debt was first introduced by Ward Cunningham and is a metaphor to describe the consequences of quick and dirty software architecture and development. It is not necessary a bad thing to fall into technical debt as long as you’re doing a good job at understanding how you’re going to pay it in [...]

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18 June 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Transition to Scrum for large software organization

My current test organization has to deal with different development processes. This is what happen when you start building a software test organization on top of a company which has had a strong acquisition strategy for the past 10 years. It didn’t necessarily had to standardize the development process as the various products were not  [...]

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