Rob Grady

From Implementing Lean Software Development, “Development is the process of transforming ideas into products. There are two schools of thought about how to go about this transformation. We might call one the deterministic school of thought and the second the empirical school of thought. The deterministic school starts by creating a complete product definition, and [...]

Great post on the scrum meeting format and how it can be applied generically. “The scrum meeting method consists of short, daily meetings designed to keep teams on track and help members get their work done. Scrums are focused on the people doing the work, not management.”

Today there are a number of software methodologies and depending on your bend (and amount of scarring) you’ll likely lean in one direction or another. From waterfall to agile and everything in between, software methodologies create a lot of discussion, heated debate and confusion. If you’re in an influential position or at least in a [...]

Check out 5 Questions with Steve McConnell

Depending on your development situation you may be lucky enough to have one development approach with a trained team and that is ideal. But, if you happen to work in a professional services firm and work on a variety of projects with disparate teams it may make sense to select a methodology to fit the [...]