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Fixed bid isn’t nirvanna

By dlambert ⋅ December 31, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

When a business wants a custom software deliverable, there’s a basic decision to be made about how this software is sourced, or procured.  Like a buy-vs.-lease decision when you go to the car dealership, the business has to decide first if they can and/or will develop the software with internal resources, and if not, they [...]

Agile Leadership: Methodology Ain’t Enough

By dlambert ⋅ November 4, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

It’s a running joke in software development that as soon as someone demonstrates that he’s a good software developer, he’s promoted to management, whether he wants it or not. Image by Cappellmeister via Flickr In recent years, of course, many companies have addressed this to some extent, and it’s now just as common to see [...]

Spike Code vs. Reference Architecture

By dlambert ⋅ November 12, 2008 ⋅ View Comments

I just read a post over on Codebetter.com where Jeremy Miller advises us all to not check in a code spike.  When I initially read this, I got a creepy, crawly feeling because the thought of doing any work at all without checking in makes me a little nervous. As I read Jeremy’s post, though, [...]

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