- The power of building things evolutionarily
- The power of having someone on the team who understands process
See for yourself:
Nice, ain't it? Let's go for more Ta-Da! moments.
No fluff, just stuff: Rolf Goetz' engineering blog on requirements, projects and systems.
What was doubly exciting for me in this article is that you see the actual ROI of inspection in clear terms. Utilising the approach of ‘extreme inspection’ in one case Rolf cites, we see a reduction in the number of defects per page by 50%. Clear empirical evidence of actual defect reduction as a consequence of inspections in real projects is hard to come by and so Rolf’s case studies are useful to consider.Thank you Fergal!
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Hyper-productivity describes a state of being where teams are working at much higher levels of performance such as two, three and four times more productive than their peers.The interesting question for agilists and other method-interested people alike is: How can I do it? Well research shows than hyper-productivity seems to come with a couple of practices, all to be found in Ryans slide set and article. Be aware, don't get trapped into the logic than you only need to follow these practices to be hyper-productive.
[...] the difference with the hyper-productive teams is their ability to stick to the practices over the project while continually removing impediments limiting performance.This resonates quite a bit with something Eric Ries posted about a startup lessons learned conference, in which Kent Beck happened to develop another manifesto, apparently (mark-up is mine):
Team vision and discipline over individuals and interactions (or processes and tools)
Validated learning over working software (or comprehensive documentation)
Customer discovery over customer collaboration (or contract negotiation)
Initiating change over responding to change (or following a plan)I wouldn't go as far as calling this the new agile manifesto. This is more a set of paradigms for startups, so one could call it a startup manifesto ;-).
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"Acceptance testing tools cost more than they're worth. I no longer use it or recommend it."
"When it comes to testing, my goal is to eliminate defects. At least the ones that matter. [...] And I'd much rather prevent defects than find and fix them days or weeks later."