YSoft will introduce SafeQ4!
The roadshow will start in Prague – 26.1. 2012.
Next stops on roadshow in Europe: Magdeburg, Essen, Nuremberg, Frankfurt am Main, Paris, London, Manchester.
Check out cool micro-site: SafeQ4.com.
SafeQ is solution for managing, monitoring and securing prints. You can find more details about SafeQ at YSoft website.
By adding more features you'll achieve less. By adding less features you'll achieve more.
Why is this paradox so common in the Sea of Software development?
It’s easier to add more than to add less.
It’s easier to rush than run for a long distance.
It’s easier to promise castle in the air than build it.
It’s easier to blame old code in the system than find understanding.
Is it harder to write test before a code than fix a bug within a bug within a bug?
You can find more details at OSSConf 2011 web page.
Daniel Markhman wrote interesting article Sofware: More Battlestar, Less Gunsmoke.
Do you find your software product as something that has beginning, middle and end? Something that provides the value with story.
Yes? No?
There is also other option. Do you find your software as just another part of never-ending soap opera with same old story in different faint washed colors?
It is quite clear that productivity in software project will fall down “little bit” when you hand over the project to somebody else.
New team does not have all the knowledge of original author and it takes longer time to solve project issues.
The problem is that this loss in productivity is not quantified and project managers relay just on some fuzzy feeling.
I found interesting talk given by Audris Mockus about Digital Software Archeology. He made deep research in the topic of productivity in software development and he defined several useful terms.
Audris formulate very interesting result of his research: Productivity after handover dropped to 1/2. This is quite important to realize. It affects project planning and resource allocation.
Play: OpenBSD 4.9 - The Answer
You can find out more about this song at OpenBSD release song page.
I found very interesting recording of panel discussion with four IT professionals about Agile testing.
They are: Lisa Crispin, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Antony Marcano and Dietmar Strasser.
They’re talking about agile development and their experience with agile methods.
Do you wonder when Agile could become Fragile? 
Listen carefully.
Video is located at borland.com.
Bas Vodde mentioned very interesting technique in his interview for SE-Radio.net. He call this technique travelers.
Let’s consider scenario: product development reached the end of iteration. Teams delivered results. People learned quite a lot. Some of them have very specialized knowledge.
Let’s give opportunity to people with very high technical knowledge to choose their team for next iteration. Give them the badge of traveler. They can choose where they want to travel in the organization.
Some of them will stay. Some of them will enjoy traveling between teams.
This technique can improve flow of knwoledge inside organization.
Software traveler is definitely not a new idea. Companies with wise management are already doing it. What I consider as very important is that Bas Vodde gave it the name.
You can download very good episode of podcast with Bas Vodde from Software Engineering Radio – episode Large Agile Software Development. I really enjoyed listening to this episode. Bas was talking about many interesting concepts in software development and agile.
Bas Vodde and Craig Larman wrote a book with title Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale SCRUM.
Note: You can follow SE-Radio Twitter – @seradio.
Microsoft Innovation Center is launching new program for students with entrepreneurial spirit.
I’ll be there as the trainer for Software development sessions and workshop.
I will talk and discuss topics like: How to define software product, how to define development processes, how to scale development, how to keep quality and many more.
The program will take 4 months. It’s great opportunity to meet great experts in software development, management and sales.
This program is for free.
Here you can find PDF with details.
Sounds interesting? Do not waste opportunity to learn something useful. Go to www.micakcelerator.cz. Registration is open until 10.2.2011.
Location: Uvodárny 2 – Brno
Together with Michal Gron we started service of continuous integration for software projects.
Michal added several open source projects: as3-signals, as3corelib, Flixel, Mate framework, Picasa Flash API, Push Button Engine, Robot Legs framework, Swiz framework. Check out dashboard.
If you have your own open source project let us know. We’ll add it to public Hudson CI service.
Tools like Ant, Maven and Hudson are very important for achieving quality in software development.
