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Learn about Scrum – Why does Scrum fail – The sponsors worried about the lack of a schedule of features in the overall project, this worry extending to the end of the project: Part 1




In the previous post (Problems in letting the team be self-empowered), I talked about how it was difficult for managers to transition to a role more akin to a coach rather than being the traditional decision-making, hard task driving individual who is responsible for driving their teams. In a number of cases, the managers are [...]



Joke about reviews




If you are in the software business, you must have heard about reviews. Reviews are an integral part of the software development process. It is said about reviews that they uncover many mistakes, many problems, and add a lot of value. Reviews can happen for a variety of documents (test plans, test cases, High level [...]



Software Configuration Management – Definition




One definition of Software Configuration Management is a set of activities designed to control change by identifying the work products that are likely to change, establishing relationships among them, defining mechanisms for managing different versions of these work products, controlling the changes imposed, and auditing and reporting on the changes made. In other words, SCM [...]



Benefits of a code review




Why would you get a development team to do a code review ? What is in it for them ? It takes time to fit in a code review, and the basic principle could be an affront to a confident developer that his/her code, written with a lot of skill, needs to be reviewed by [...]