BRISBANE, Calif., Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CollabNet® (www.collab.net),
the global leader for enterprise cloud development and Agile ALM products and
services, today announced the addition of Promod Haque, a managing partner at
Norwest Venture Partners, as a new board member, and the appointment of two
senior executives to its management team. In addition to Haque, CollabNet
added Tony Farinaro as senior vice president, worldwide services and Laurence
Sweeney as vice president, enterprise transformation.
"CollabNet is coming off a record year of growth and success as we continue
to help a growing number of enterprise customers adopt and scale Agile and
cloud-based development strategies from concept through deployment," said
Bill Portelli, CollabNet's CEO and co-founder. "To build upon our momentum
and better serve our customers we are very pleased to st... (more)
Irrespective of what the Agile Manifesto says (“Customer Collaboration over
Contract Negotiation”) we do require a signed contract for ANY medium to
large software outsourcing engagements – and that includes agile projects.
Why? Because when there is a commercial arrangement between two parties for
delivery of any service where a significant amount of financial transaction
is involved, there needs to be a clear agreement on:
What is the service that is going to be delivered and what will be the
charges for those services? What happens when things go wrong? Do's and
Don’ts of how ... (more)
We’ve begun planning our next webinar : PaaS and DevOps – Best practices
in Agile Cloud, where Cloud Computing intersects with Agile software
development practice, and where a key focus for this is establishing
“software factories”.
Although the Cloud debate so far has focused mainly on infrastructure-level
efficiency benefits, the real power kick from the trend will come from how it
changes the process of software development itself.
This is mainly headlined by the term ‘DevOps’ to reflect the merging of
the previously two traditionally distinct domains of Development and
Oper... (more)
In short the answer is a big NO.
Agile@Scale ≠ Agile@Manifesto
Why do I say that Agile@Manifesto cannot be scaled?
Apart from what is explicitly stated in the manifesto, there is an unstated
belief that “any” software can be developed by a small group of highly
talented & motivated individual as long as they are sitting within shouting
distance, have continuous access to people who can decide what the software
should do and they can work the way they deem fit. This belief is elaborated
through 4 value statements and 12 principles behind it. These 16 statements
can broadly be clas... (more)
Do you really believe that adopting agile practices will help you achieve
work life balance?
One of the principles behind agile manifesto hints that it is possible:
“…Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors,
developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace
indefinitely…”
However, the real world is different. We live in a world where we have an
obsession with “Growth” … obsession with “Achieving more with less”
… obsession with “Goal orientation” … obsession with “Stretch
target”. To this you add the fast pace of change in everything around u... (more)
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