http://www.qualitydev.net Injecting quality throughout your SDLC Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:53:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Okay... so I realize that it's been a while since I posted... The  main reason is that my wife and I had a beautiful little baby girl several months back (well, I suppose she had the baby really!!) and while I have been working, no one told me how much time needs to ... http://www.qualitydev.net/?p=91 This recently released book on Leadership and Strategic Approach is, basically, excellent! I am an advocate of taking the ego out of management and believe that managers acting as facilitators and stepping in when necessary rather than taking an ever-present command and control attitude, gain far more productivity from their teams. The ... http://www.qualitydev.net/?p=87 "The Economics of Iterative Software Development" gave me some excitement, thinking there was finally a concise reference from experts giving examples of projects they participated on, why they failed (with a breakdown of specific areas) and how the different aspects of developing iteratively resolved these issues in future projects - ... http://www.qualitydev.net/?p=84 Unofficially there are no such things as fixed priced projects in the software industry. Of course, officially this term is still used, but lets face it these are no good to the customer or vendor. Why? Because if the project is completed early then the vendor may just work slower to ... http://www.qualitydev.net/?p=77 No! This isn't a blog about Code Reviews. It's actually a book review of Bob Martin's 'Clean Code'. However the amount of code to read in the book may seem like a series of code reviews (more on that in a bit). Each chapter contains a different subject to enhance code ... http://www.qualitydev.net/?p=74 In my last post I discussed some of the issues why Scrum projects were failing. One of the reasons expressed by the interviewees was that organizations are trying, but failing, to extend Scrum across the Enterprise. Scrum is, like other Agile methodologies, primarily aimed at development teams on a project by ... http://www.qualitydev.net/?p=70 At Agile and Development conferences this year some sessions have been looking at how to improve Agile techniques using failed projects as examples. Discussing some of these issues and reading blogs and articles it appears that a significant percentage of Scrum projects have failed and it is not quite the ... http://www.qualitydev.net/?p=63 Fred Brooks's law of 'adding manpower to a late software project makes it later' is one most of us have tried to prove wrong.......and failed! I was at Agile 2008 and saw an interesting session, "Breaking Brooks's Law" from Menlo Innovations, a Michigan based Java development company. They claimed to disprove ... http://www.qualitydev.net/?p=56 Lawrence Oliva touched on a great issue when using metrics in an organization "...it is important for metrics to support your project and not just be a bottomless pit for data collection and weekly presentation." I agree with this sentiment. Far too often do we feel good about collecting relevant metrics ... http://www.qualitydev.net/?p=54 Earlier this week on Javalobby, I posted an extract from our monthly newsletter regarding our analysis of the ‘missing braces in If Statement’ rule firing and the potential bug involved. If you omit braces and use Static Analysis tools it is a problem actually finding these bugs. Why? Because you probably ... http://www.qualitydev.net/?p=50