Lean-Agile Thinking - All Comments

re: More efficient software development

Shibli Mohammad Arafat — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:40:38 GMT

I completely agree that there is no methodology that 100% fits with your organization's need. If you have the goal to improve continuously and start with a process you will obviously find that something is not working well with your organization's need. Then you can identify that, and work on it to overcome that problem, and obviously you will find a good solution of the problem. Then you can incorporate that solution in your process. Here the point is, the solution that you chose for the problem may not be suitable for other organization if they have the same problem.

re: More efficient software development

Mads — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:00:52 GMT

Well, my point is not to define just another model, but more to look at some of the common and interrelated areas when making good and efficient software development.

Often the focus is locked on a specific methodology or framework and not on how software development fits into the whole system with different areas. The culture and management system does also play a role in the total picture.

I think it is more about identifying potential candidates when building or improving your own recipe to more efficiently software development. Based on my current experience and knowledge, I currently see a pattern where the areas I mention are relevant to look into.

re: More efficient software development

Hans Haller Baggesen — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:56:13 GMT

I agree that there properly no Silver bullet methodology out of the box that fits my hand - Not many methodologies of any kind does that. It seems like I always need to grab the essence of the methodology (ies) or framework(s) and build my custom fitted version. I even believe that MSF 4.0 (for agile) back in 05 was build with that idea. Taking whatever agile compound, that made the process of building software efficient at Microsoft. Does that make MSF useful out of the box? Properly not! but is it great input to your own custom fitted silver bullet of the day – could be!

So Mads, isn’t your model just that –your own custom fitted silver bullet of the day?

BTW: This is not at any point a revenge comment, for all the time you have tricked me in coming up with a silver bullet for other people’s problems and watch me fail miserable ;).