Agile

  “Agile is not a silver bullet, but it can be the bullet that dodges the layoff.” — Michael de la Maza Agile skills have helped me change and adapt to stay relevant over 25 years at Microsoft. Agile has become a buzzword in the business world, with more and more companies adopting this approach …

“Agile methods are not meant to be followed blindly; rather, teams should remain flexible and pragmatic, adapting their approach to meet the specific needs of each project.” — Jim Highsmith I’ve been lucky to be involved throughout the journey of developing MSF Agile with the product teams. I was asked to be a reviewer and …

“Agile is about being adaptive and flexible, responding to change rather than following a plan blindly.” – Mike Cohn I like to be able to scan process methodologies so I create skeletal views that let me quickly see the key activities, artifacts, principles, and practices of a methodology. MSF for Agile Software Development is a …

“I am not here to speak the Truth. I am here just to give you a method to perceive it.” ― Jaggi Vasudev, Of Mystics & Mistakes As a software professional, I have seen many project-relevant processes come and go over the years. The waterfall model, the Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, Lean, Kanban, DevOps, …

“Each of the practices still has the same weaknesses as before, but what if those weaknesses were now made up for by the strengths of other practices? We might be able to get away with doing things simply.” – Kent Beck Extreme Programming (XP) has been around a while, but not everybody knows “what it …