Tag Archives: Agile

Webinar: The Business Driven Software Development

By Dima Malenko | Published: February 3, 2010
Net Objectives conducts a series of webinars on Business Driven Software Development: This series provides an introduction on how to achieve Business Agility. Business Agility enables an organization to respond quickly to external forces (such as new market opportunities and competitive forces) as well as to respond quickly to new insights attained internally. While many organizations [...]
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SOA Manifesto

By Dima Malenko | Published: October 26, 2009
Recently I discovered that during 2nd International SOA Symposium they published SOA Manifesto. It follows the spirit of the famous Agile Manifesto, which provoked many discussion and debates over the actual meaning of the statements of that manifesto. (Not) surprisingly there are many other manifestos related to software. Here are some to name a few: The GNU [...]
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Weekend reading: Requirements in Agile

By Dima Malenko | Published: August 15, 2009
For this weekend we’ll get some reading on the topic of requirements in Agile: Writing Good User Stories. Nice concept of INVESTing in user stories. Latest description of FDD process. Pay attention to step 2 ‘Building a Features List’. Apart from precise definition of what a feature is, it introduces an interesting idea of time-boxing for features: a feature [...]
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Weekend reading: Software projects planning and estimation

By Dima Malenko | Published: July 17, 2009
Here are some links to interesting stuff on software estimation and projects planning for weekend reading and watching. Your Will Suffer From Power Laws. There are some things, which are the way the are, and you can not change them, even if you want. You can not spit upwind (at least, not with desirable result); you [...]
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Developing software is not enough…

By Dima Malenko | Published: May 24, 2008
… someone has to be using it. Guys from 37signals got it right: It feels great to be done with something on the programming side and then feeling free to move on to the next thing. We all do that at times. But it’s not really real until our users are able to enjoy it. Way too [...]
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Why "agile" is better

By Dima Malenko | Published: May 15, 2008
Software developers like being “agile”, whatever this means. They say being “agile” liberates their creativity and lets positive energies of the Universe flow through them to the code to (hopefully) solve customer’s problems. They are committed to using all the practices that e.g. XP suggests, but it generally would be better if somebody else [...]
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