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A few years ago, I was part of a software development group stressed by a combination of challenges.  The first was our ability to quickly assemble small effective teams to take on an increasing amount of short term consulting assignments.  The second...

We, testers, are coming late to the agile party. I would argue that the role of a programmer is first class in Extreme Programming, the role of a team lead first class in Scrum, and the role of the architect first class in Feature Driven Development...

The testing of software products or any software artifact, after the fact (i.e. inspection to find defects versus inspection to prevent defects), adds no value to the business providing the product or customer using the software.  In this regard we can...

Effective Destabilization Software practitioners familiar with the rules of extreme programming know that moving people around, or the process of continually appointing team members to work on different parts of the solution or to serve in different team...

Describe your first computer program. The first I remember was a tic-tac-toe Java applet back in the summer of 1995. My good friend John and I purchased O'Reilly's 'Java in a Nutshell' book in March of that year. I voraciously read and tried the...

What attracted you to software development? I got in touch with my first computer back in 83, a TI 99/4A. At this time the high school “Computer Lab” was been installed. It consist of 8 computers. Wow! Just too cool stuff for a nerdy guy, who...

Throughout this past year I've presented various articles highlighting the high-performance computing requirements on Wall Street, where latency and temporal constraints are closely tied profit and compliance. As many of you know, The Techdoer Times is...

In my previous post, I suggested that Agile's success is rooted in the creative responses that result from embracing continuous feedback and satisfying the right customer needs. In this third and final part to the Standing Up For Agile series, I’ll...

In my previous post, I pondered whether the overwhelming marketing hype surrounding the Agile movement has tainted its early success and diluted its purpose.  I don't believe this is the case.  Agile methodologies are very much at the forefront of...

The Techdoer Times is going global, Buenos Aires, Argentina to be exact.  I'll be giving a presentation at the first ever Latin American conference on Agile Software Development Methodologies in late October. Introduction It takes a lot of effort to be...