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A Framework for Agile Development - June 08
Volume 3 Number 6
This
month I had the opportunity to teach a class at a government
contractor on the West Coast.These folks were responsible for writing
mission critical software that had to work correctly or else very bad
things could happen. I  quickly saw that the class was composed of
bright and experienced software engineers who worked through about four
and half days material in less than three days. We even had time to
talk about CM patterns and release management. With such a great
class, I naturally asked them if they were using Agile
practices.
They
were not. I spoke about the benefits of continuous integration which
was well received but overall they were used to a very disciplined
software development framework that was most definitely not Agile. What
frustrated me most is that I did not have a solid framework to point
them to in order to really get them interested in Agile.
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This month I had the opportunity to teach a class at a government contractor on the West Coast.These folks were responsible for writing mission critical software that had to work correctly or else very bad things could happen. I quickly saw that the class was composed of bright and experienced software engineers who worked through about four and half days material in less than three days. We even had time to talk about CM patterns and release management. With such a great class, I naturall...
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