Our August article Is Agile Taking Over? discussed the Australian Government Digital Transformation Office (DTO) and its new Digital Service Standard. Now a 14th October article in The Mandarin, DTO: gov.au to be new entry portal for government services, tells us just how agile the DTO has become. Author Tom Burton, publisher of The Mandarin, […]
Tags: Agile, GovernmentAn Editorial I wrote about CMMI in the Feb 2004 Newsletter (Yes, way back then) has been receiving some hits recently via Research Gate, no doubt in part due to events like the CMMI® Institute Conference EMEA 2015 and Global Congress 2015. The Feb 2004 Editorial criticized the Victorian Government’s initiative to help small-to-medium software […]
Tags: AgileIn our June article Agile Debate Heats Up Again, industry gurus identify a number of reasons why organizations will fail with agile. Now the Australian Government Digital Transformation Office (DTO) has stepped up to the plate with a new Digital Service Standard which “establishes the criteria that Australian Government digital services must meet to ensure […]
Tags: AgileAgile software development is becoming more disciplined but that has not prevented heated debate from springing up again. Our April 2014 issue had an article on Earned Value Management (EMV) in which strong words were traded between Agile and traditional industry experts, e,g. “Artificial measures such as EVM typically prove to be overhead at best, […]
Tags: AgileCrosstalk Magazine July/August 2014 features some high profile software industry gurus with a range of topical, sometimes controversial, advice. There are also some interesting metrics I had not heard of before. This Crosstalk issue has the theme High Maturity Organizational Characteristics and is sponsored by The 309th Software Maintenance Group (309 SMXG), one of the […]
Tags: AgileIn this post we will introduce the Theory of Constraints (TOC) and start looking at how it can be applied to software engineering management. TOC is most well known for its so called “Five Focusing Steps”, and often that process is referred to when trying to identify and deal with bottlenecks in Kanban for Software. […]
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