Controlling the Chaos of Agile Development
It seems like batch processing should have no place in agile development. It conjures up the image of someone sitting at a IBM 026 keypunch machine typing in Job Control Language (JCL) and COBOL II. It is doubtful that any agile team has ever … [Continue reading]
This is a very short course in the International Function Point Users Group's (IFPUG's) Software Non-Functional Assessment Process (SNAP). It is offered in the same spirit as A Very Short Course in Function Point Analysis. As I begin this post, I am … [Continue reading]
When I was going to college and even when I first graduated, I used to work with my father doing roofing. One day he told me to flash the skylight on a roof we were working on. (If you don't know what this means, don't worry about it.) My father … [Continue reading]
The concept of new development is pretty straight forward. You start with nothing, write some code and then you have an application. Enhancement projects are a little more complicated. You start with an existing application. You add to it. You may … [Continue reading]
When most people think about estimating, they are thinking about bottom-up estimating. When your car needs to be repaired, you bring it to a mechanic. If you need new brakes, you will get an estimate for the cost of the brakes and the amount of time … [Continue reading]