Category: Scrum

• 19 March 2007

  Nature doesn’t design upfront, nor should software engineers

  Creationists (‘Intelligent Design’ proponents, whatever) argue that since life is too complex to have arisen by chance, there must be a God (or designer). They argue that the alternative to design is chance and that is just too improbable – it is like climbing an improbably tall, steep mountain in a single bound. Or put…
• 7 March 2007

  Maintaining agility and kaizen

  Robert Hoekman Jr has recently launched the kaizen manifesto to promote the practice of continuous incremental improvement in software development: “Kaizen (改善, Japanese for “change for the better” or “improvement”, the English translation is “continuous improvement”, or “continual improvement.”) is an approach to productivity improvement originating in applications of the work of American experts such…