Comments on: Software Hell is a Crowded Place http://qualityandinnovation.com/2009/02/04/software-hell-is-a-crowded-place/ exploring quality, productivity & innovation in socio-technical systems Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:38:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Software Quality Digest - 2009-02-11 | No bug left behind http://qualityandinnovation.com/2009/02/04/software-hell-is-a-crowded-place/#comment-121 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:54:21 +0000 http://qualityandinnovation.com/?p=577#comment-121 [...] Software Hell is a Crowded Place – “Software development is a learning process. It’s a process of learning about the problem we need to solve, the problem domain, and ourselves – our interests and capabilities.” [...]

]]> By: Joe Chavez http://qualityandinnovation.com/2009/02/04/software-hell-is-a-crowded-place/#comment-117 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:52:12 +0000 http://qualityandinnovation.com/?p=577#comment-117 Many of the questions posed in blueprint questions are addressed by Agile or Lean development processes.

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> * What features represent the bare minimum we >need to run this system?

Features in the form of vertical slices of customer valued functionality. In the form, “User X can do Y to achieve X.”

> * What are the really critical success factors?

This is addressed by writing acceptance tests for the feature set.

> * What do we know about our specifications now? >What do we not know?

Agile Modeling

> * What do we know about ourselves now? What do >we want to learn more about?

Daily Stand-up and the Retrospective.

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