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Author Archives: Casey
Dangers When Adopting Agile
Post by Casey
Sep
26
2006
According to Siddharta Govindaraj, there are five main dangers to be aware of when adopting agile processes: Unfamiliarity Top-down thinking Culture Change Incomplete implementation Silver bullet syndrome Out of the five listed I partially take exception to number one and … Continue reading
Agile Revolution
Post by Casey
Sep
26
2006
Gus Power has an interesting quote about the agility of a team, “Agility of a team is inversely proportional to the number of external people involved.” If this is true, and I think it is, how do you convince the … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes
Tagged best practices, communication, discussion, on-site customer, people, Small Teams
5 Comments
Midwest Blog Aggregator
Post by Casey
Sep
20
2006
Luke Francl over at http://centralstandardtech.com has started a pretty sweet Midwest blog aggregator. You will notice family favorites like Alttext.com (Ben Edwards), Scratch Mount (McClain Looney), Unpossible (Dan Grigsby), Garrickvanburen.com (Garrick Van Buren) and your very own Refactr (The Refactr … Continue reading
The Appropriate Amount of Time for Discussion
Post by Casey
Sep
18
2006
I have been on too many projects where the discussions went way overboard (many times through my own causing.) It is so easy to fall into the trap of “let’s just discuss it quick” and one hour later still be … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes, Business, Software Development
Tagged best practices, communication, Reduce the plumbing, refactr.com, Web 2.0, writing
1 Comment
Get an On-site Customer Now
Post by Casey
Jul
14
2006
Presumably, you want to give Agile a shot and are tossing around which principles to implement first. The number one thing I recommend going all out on from the beginning is having an on-site customer. And I don’t mean a … Continue reading
When plumbing outweighs business logic 10:1
Post by Casey
Jun
26
2006
This full Java call stack between the HTTP and DB layer gives a visual representation of the problem with most “Enterprise” Java Web Applications today. And the problem really isn’t the number of layers (this one shows 97); most of … Continue reading
Fire Aim, Fire Aim: The Web 2.0 Dev Model
Post by Casey
Jun
24
2006
Martin Fowler speaking at Rails Conf 2006, describes the Web 2.0 software development process as a process that works in the reverse of traditional software development processes. There is this culture of just give the product to the customer. Then … Continue reading
