Why Practice 3: Integrate Continuously
Once we define what we want and build the smallest increment, we want to integrate it into our system as soon as possible so that we can see it working and get a true measure of our progress. Continuous integration is at the very heart of every Agile project and so I wanted to introduce …
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Read MoreMeasure Efficiency of Feedback Loops
All of the things that I suggest that we measure on software development teams, from these current seven blog posts as well as other things that I’ve written, are all about ways of improving the efficiency of our software development process. We measure to understand and improve. Agile is all about getting and learning from …
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Read MoreMeasure Costs of Not Delivering Features
In my last blog post, called Measure Customer Value of Features, I discuss the importance of seeing the value of features from the customer’s perspective. But there is another perspective that the customer can sometimes have that is also important for us to see–the cost of not delivering a feature. Sometimes we’re in time-critical situations …
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Read MoreMeasure Customer Value of Features
I always say that doing the right thing is far more important than doing the thing right, if we only have to choose one of them. Of course, we don’t we can choose to do both and that’s when software development is at its best. It doesn’t matter how elegant our code is or how …
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