Archive for March 11th, 2009
“More Than One Way to Roll-Out Agile”
Ryan posted part I of the debate between Erik Huddleston (Inovis), Jack Yang (Homeaway) and me on the subject of Agile roll-out strategies. The heart of the debate is team-by-team versus all-in. To paraphrase Robert Graves, the debate is true and the telling is frank. Highly recommended!
A Quip That Says It All
Readers of the post Can You Afford the Software You are Developing? might recall my grave concern about accruing technical debt. It is like debt on your credit card – you struggle to pay the interest; you rarely manage to pay back the principal.
Reading Esther Derby‘s article The Three Pillars of Executive Support for Agile Adoption, I noticed her independent “verdict” on the subject:
Technical debt is the harvest of cutting corners to meet unrealistic deadlines
I am inclined to think “technical debt” is actually a euphemism for “inadequate investment”
The Agile Executive 