Over the years I’ve been part of many recovery projects. What I mean by “recovery project” is usually a project-inside-a-project that is started when the original project was clearly not going to meet its objectives. Each project fails in a unique way, but often failure is characterised by not fulfilling the stakeholder’s expectations.
There are […]
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Recovering Agile Projects
Published by May 8th, 2010 in agile, economics, management, software architecture and software design. 1 CommentDuke Nukem Forever and Magic Bags of Money
Published by December 22nd, 2009 in agile, business, case study, digital media, economics, management, thoughtworks and trends. 3 CommentsWired has a very interesting piece on how the Duke Nukem Forever project failed. It’s not only relevant because DNF is part of the nerd culture but also because it is a very interesting tale about a company that could not achieve a reasonable Definition of Done (DoD).
In software development we often talk about Done […]
I Wish I Knew That Before Getting This Job – Slides and (Long) Notes
Published by November 24th, 2009 in agile, business, c#, components, domain driven design, domain specific languages, economics, events, java, layers, management, object orientation, software architecture, software design, thoughtworks and trends. 0 CommentsAs I said here before I was in Brazil some weeks ago to present at a conference. I had a really great time over there with some amazing people and would like to thank Caelum for their hard work in creating such a great conference. I’m making the slide deck and notes available in my […]
Velocity: Will we Ever Learn?
Published by September 19th, 2008 in agile, business, economics and management. 15 CommentsIt is a fairly common place to have developers telling the business and project managers that the process needs to be improved and the business dismissing the claim saying something in the lines of “Who cares? Our Velocity is ok.”.
The problem is that it is very easy for inexperienced Business Analysts and Project Managers […]
Olympic Tail
Published by August 16th, 2008 in business, digital media, economics and trends. 1 CommentFor the first time in my life I’m watching the Olympic games every night. Brazil is not doing a good job at all but it is a way to feel closer to home.
Anyway, this morning I went out to have breakfast with my wife. While we were out Brazil got its first Gold Medal, Cesar […]
BigPharma Problems & Solutions: Have You Seen This Before?
Published by July 1st, 2008 in agile, business, case study, economics, management and trends. 4 CommentsMay 2008’s edition of Harvard Business Review has an article titled ‘Rebuilding the R&D Engine in BigPharma’. In this article Jean-Pierre Garnier -CEO of GlaxoSmithKline- talks about the changes that BigPharma’s R&D process has to face to stay competitive in the new market.
See if you find anything familiar in these quotes:
The most significant [of the […]
Bob Warfiel on LOP Teams & Tools
Published by November 30th, 2007 in domain specific languages, economics, language oriented programming and trends. 2 CommentsBob Warfield’s SmoothSpam blog has a nice post about how creating software as tools and languages would reduce the risk of development.
I’ve written before that if an area is important enough, it eventually becomes a language. We’ve watched it happen over and over again, sometimes in the most unlikely places. For example, Adobe […]
Carlos Villela has just sent me a link to a post by Nick Drew where he uses colors to identify what I’ve called Domain Layers.
Well, one of my thought experiments runs like this: I’m going to give the code a colour. The colours I can choose from go like this:
* Yellow […]
