Posts in 2018
  • Introduce Agile in A Company

    2018-09-25 in 2018

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    First, teams have successfully used Scrum to develop applications. The news spread out and everybody wants to apply Scrum. It is time to introduce enterprise-wide Agile with Scrum or Kanban or XP. Your Company wants to introduce Enterprise Agility …

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  • What does an Agile Coach?

    2018-08-16 in 2018

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    An agile coach has three main areas of activity: Foster Autonomy Teach and support the team and individuals to be autonomous within the given boundaries of the organization and its processes. Create Ground for Motivation Help teams to maximize their …

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  • Architectural Decision Records ADR

    2018-07-05 in 2018

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    Architecture Decision Record ADR is compact and traceable documents of all important decisions taken during the realization of a product. Use Asciidoc or Markdown and Git to have agile and lean documentation of your major decisions. The huge …

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  • How to Reach the Software Quality Graal?

    2018-06-19 in 2018

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    Lately I was asked how many bugs and smells detected through SonarQube were acceptable for a software product. And a Scrum master inquired which organizational changes are necessary to empower software developers to write good code. Speechless and …

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  • Agile Trends Switzerland 2018

    2018-05-20 in 2018

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    What are the main hurdles to introducing agile approaches in Swiss companies? The Swiss agile trends report was published for the last ten years and learns us the difficulties and successes of agile transformations. SwissQ has published a …

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  • Sonar Lint for the Impatient

    2018-05-16 in 2018

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    Remove issues before they reach customer sites. No quality problems shall reach your Git master branch. SonarQube is a central server that processes full analyses (triggered by the various SonarQube Scanners). Its purpose is to give a 360° vision …

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  • Agile Introduction Success Criteria through the LeSS Lens

    2018-04-18 in 2018

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    An agile organization is able to deliver or change her direction at any time without additional cost. More companies want to become truly agile and book an expensive journey to the holy land of agility. Often travelers never reach their true …

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  • Pragmatic Craftsmanship - Professional Software Developer

    2018-04-12 in 2018

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    The last months I was often confronted with software products having insufficient quality. Insufficient means late delivery and few new features. The effort to correct errors in the field eats 30% to 50% away from the development budget. How can …

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  • Why Do You Need Metrics and KPI in Agile Product Development?

    2018-03-14 in 2018

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    Why do we define metrics and KPI? First, we want to find out how good the built-in quality of our software artifacts is. Second, we want to improve the built-in quality through experiments and use the metrics to judge the success of these …

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  • Agile GIS Open Data Initiative

    2018-03-12 in 2018

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    How can agile approaches be applied to deliver solutions in a government environment? Here is an example of a GIS open data portal successfully developed using agile approaches such as Kanban, lean product, and technical excellence. GIS Open Data …

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