Posts in process Category

Sep 5, 2008

Martin Fowler On Scrum

Martin Fowler talks about avoiding common Scrum pitfalls. A refreshing read. But Martin is able to point out the root cause of most of the faulty adoptions in a single sentence: When you just try to do the practices, and don’t adopt the philosophy, it’s not going to work terribly well. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: agile, for executives · Tagged: martin-fowler, scrum · (0)

Apr 15, 2008

Process Styles

I have been reading about REST a lot recently, and hence about architectural styles. Perhaps I have found them in the opposite order. Nevertheless, it has been extremely refreshing and educative. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: agile, for executives, process · Tagged: process styles · (1)

Mar 19, 2008

Extreme Programming Getting Stagnant

Kent Beck says that XP is in the danger of getting stagnated because of a combination of limited adoption and no opposition. It has become like the standards, which everyone accepts in principle, but no on adopts in practice. I like XP, it was like a breath of fresh air after working through various waterfall models and burning the hands. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: agile, for executives · Tagged: extreme-programming · (1)

Jan 20, 2008

I Keep Timesheets For Myself

Timesheets are only wastage of paper for some, for some they are evidence of the work, for some they translate into money and for some they are just more things to talk about at meetings. I have had a love-hate relationship with them. I started by disliking them, but later realized what I could gain from them. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: mindworks, process · Tagged: timesheets · (5)

Dec 14, 2007

Does Agile Development Make Changes Cheaper?

Some of the reactions to my post on changes being expensive hinted and some explicitly said that Agile Development and Test Driven Development can make changes cheaper. I think they can help you to make the changes easier, but they can neither reduce impact nor cost of the change. Let me elaborate. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: agile, for executives, programming · Tagged: code · (2)

Sep 15, 2007

Using Markup To Communicate

The advantages of semantic markup are getting popular. I see that more developers are now getting involved in discussions and realize its need. By conveying the meaning and intent, semantic markup can help machines understand the context better. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: design, process, web · Tagged: html, semantic-markup · (3)

Aug 5, 2007

Open Source + Buy + Build

JP is one of my favorite bloggers, he has the ability to gain insight into use of technology, and explain the problems, solutions and trends without getting technical. He rightly says that open source is an additional option today for building software solutions. Quite true, and this is something I have been pondering over for some time now in relation to my own process. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: for executives, mindworks, open source, process · Tagged: build, buy, jp-rangaswami · (0)

Jul 4, 2007

Because Common Sense Is Never Common

There have been many ways of convincing others why a process is important. By process I mean a way of doing things, in a certain order, by certain roles, at certain times. Whether it is tooled or documented or just verbally agreed on. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: for executives, mindworks, process · Tagged: common-sense · (1)

Apr 30, 2007

Better Than Reviews

As a eXtreme Programming follower, I like reviews, especially the peer-to-peer reviews. In fact, as a software engineer I think reviews are necessary. Reviews help in bringing attention to faults before they go into the testing when the effort can get magnified. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: for executives, process · Tagged: quality, reviews · (2)

Apr 20, 2007

Get Things Done And Tools

I use David Allen’s Get Things Done (GTD) philosophy. It is one of the things that does not carry its own baggage and does not get in the way of doing. It is about doing than doing about doing, if you understand what I mean. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: for executives, process · Tagged: basket, extreme-programming, get-things-done, gmail, gtd, thinkingrock · (3)

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