A couple of advanced agile(or lean) webcasts from David Anderson, author ofAgile Management for Software Engineering. These are logical continuations of the webcasts I mentioned before. As always, you can run these webcasts at double speed without losing understanding or accent.
Excellent discussion on how MS has combined the Agile and CMMI models. It’s interesting to see how much debt there is to people such as Deming and Crosby in modern day approaches to software development. Makes me wish I had aimed for more than a Conceded Pass in my Operations Management subjects at Uni.
David takes the audience through a nice high-level view of team foundation showing the various concepts that underpin the artefacts. Nice. Also shows how the CMMI-flavour is setup for a SCAMPI appraisal.
Also, on a related note, I’ve finally got my trial version of foundation server running on the virtual server system here. My advice on this is, RTFIM (read the f*g install manual), unless you know how all the MS portal/db/.net infrastructure all works. I’m mucking around with the method guidance, will try and build my own method flavour. Have pointed our method guy to the server, as his first intro to this idea of managing software properly, but the path to change is so hard, and long.
tags: agile, team+foundation+server, software+management
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