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Software Process and Measurement Cast


The Software Process and Measurement Cast provides a forum to explore the varied world of software process improvement and measurement.  The SPaMCast covers topics that deal the challenges how work is done in information technology organizations as they grow and evolve.  The show combines commentaries, interviews and your feedback to serve up ideas, options, opinions, advice and even occasionally facts. 

 

Mar 15, 2015

This week’s Software Process and Measurement Cast is a magazine feature with three columns. This week we have columns from Kim Pries, The Software Sensei, and Jo Ann Sweeney’s Explaining Change.  In this installment Kim discusses the ins and outs of selling defect control.  In Explaining Change, Jo Ann tackles the concept of planning for communication (protip: it is better than winging it). The SPaMCAST essay this week tackles the topic of what is and isn’t Agile.  Does just saying you are Agile make you Agile?  We think not!

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Re-Read Saturday News

The Re-Read Saturday focus on Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox’s The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement began on February 21ndThe Goal has been hugely influential because it introduced the Theory of Constraints, which is central to lean thinking. The book is written as a business novel. Visit the Software Process and Measurement Blog and catch up on the re-read.

Note: If you don’t have a copy of the book, buy one.  If you use the link below it will support the Software Process and Measurement blog and podcast.

Dead Tree Version or Kindle Version 

I am beginning to think of which book will be next. Do you have any ideas?

Upcoming Events

CMMI Institute Conference EMEA 2015
March 26 -27 London, UK
I will be presenting “Agile Risk Management.” 
http://cmmi.unicom.co.uk/

QAI Quest 2015
April 20 -21 Atlanta, GA, USA
Scale Agile Testing Using the TMMi
http://www.qaiquest.org/2015/

DCG will also have a booth!

CANCELED -International Conference on Software Quality and Test Management 
Washington D.C. May 31 - June 5, 2015

Next SPaMCast

The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature our interview with Agile coach Mario Lucero.  Mario and I discussed the nuts and bolts of coaching Agile teams, what is and isn’t Agile and the impact of coaching on success. 

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