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Can PDCA Help Us Improve Our Test-First Development Efforts?

I was thinking about target conditions and the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle earlier today when a code related issue that I was having popped into head and decided to meld with the current string of thoughts. The resulting thought was leading me toward...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2010 11:42 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Community, Agile, Philosophy of Software, Standardized Work, Lean Systems, Kaizen
Some Initial Thoughts On Agile Developer Skills And Certification

There’s a new mailing list over on Google Groups surrounding the ideas behind Agile Developer Skills Certification . After reading this post by Ron Jeffries , I joined up with the group and started reading the traffic. I generally share the same opinions...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2009 3:10 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Agile, Philosophy of Software, Education, Certification
Favor Defect Prevention Over Quality Inspection And Correction

In the manufacturing world, you would never find a company that assembles a bunch of parts into a final product before inspecting any of the individual parts, and they would not wait until the end of the assembly line to test for the quality of the product...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2009 10:04 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Refactoring, Analysis and Design, Agile, Philosophy of Software, Standardized Work, Management, Lean Systems, Behavior Driven Development
Improving Our Industry: Its Time to Educate Outward, to Improve Inward

For so long there have been so many advocating the benefits of the various Agile, Lean, Iterative, or whatever-you-want-to-call-it-these-days methodologies. We, as software developers, seem to understand the benefits of these methods. So why, then, do...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2009 11:59 AM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Community, Agile, Philosophy of Software, Management, Lean Systems
The Pathfinder: Reaching Your Organization’s Goal

Imagine that there are three group of people going out for a hike. Within each group of people, we have a goal of everyone reaching a picnic table at the end of the hike (and no one can eat until everyone has arrived). One of the people in each group...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2009 1:41 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Community, Agile, Philosophy of Software, Management, Lean Systems
Kanban in Software Development. Part 2: Completing the Kanban Board with Queues, Order Points and Limits

In Part 1 of Kanban in Software Development , I introduced the concepts of kanban boards and pipelines. I also showed a very simple example of creating a pipeline for our development process. However, there were some obvious limitations in what I showed...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2008 2:06 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Agile, Philosophy of Software, Retrospectives, Management, Lean Systems, Kanban
Kanban in Software Development. Part 1: Introducing Kanban Boards and Pipelines

In the world of Scrum , XP and other forms of Agile software development , many teams use visual control systems to outline the various steps that software goes through during development. These boards are known by various names - Scrum boards, card-boards...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2008 10:45 AM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Agile, Philosophy of Software, Management, Lean Systems, Kanban
Dependency Inversion: 'Abstraction' Does Not Mean 'Interface'

A coworker recently asked if we should always abstract every object into an interface in order to fulfill the Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP). The question stunned me at first, honestly. I knew in my head that this was a bad idea - abstracting into...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 4:04 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Refactoring, Analysis and Design, Principles and Patterns, .NET, Domain Driven Design, Agile, Philosophy of Software, Lambda Expressions

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