Published at: 06:12 am - Sunday December 06 2009
For about a decade now everybody in IT talks about Agile, but hardly anybody else does. There is a somewhat similar concept of ‘Lean’ in other industries, but hardly anybody in a ‘real’ industry considers things like ‘release early’ a viable strategy. And that’s a good thing. I don’t want a second iteration car. “Ooops [...]
Published at: 11:01 pm - Wednesday January 14 2009
I wrote before about the maturity (or lack thereof) of the art of software development in the database realm. So did others.
One thing I noted is that there is no discussion on how to break down a database into modules or packages.
So today instead of mainly complaining, I’going to make a proposal on how to [...]
Published at: 04:11 pm - Thursday November 13 2008
Als Mitarbeiter eines Softwaredienstleisters habe ich mit agilen Methoden immer wieder ein großes Problem: “Wie überzeuge ich den Kunden?” Es sollte in seinem Interesse sein, mit den Softwareentwicklern, die Anwendung in kleinen Häppchen zu spezifizieren, zu entwickeln und auszuprobieren. Aber der Kunde sieht die Sache anders. Er hat oft schlechte Erfahrungen gemacht. Anbieter haben nicht [...]