Posts Tagged ‘Masa Maeda’
Outline of the Technical Debt Seminar at the Cutter Summit
Pictured above are speakers of the forthcoming Cutter Summit. Between the seventeen of us we will cover a broad spectrum of IT topics such as Agile, Enterprise Architecture, Business Strategy, Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Governance and Security. Inter-disciplinary seminars, panels and case studies will weave all those threads together to give participants a clear view of the unfolding transformation in IT and of the new way(s) companies are starting to utilize IT. Click here for a details.
As Jim Highsmith and I continue to develop our joint seminar on technical debt for the summit, I would like to give readers of this blog a sense of where we are and ask for feedback. Right now we are considering the following building blocks for the seminar:
- The Nature of Technical Debt
- Technical Debt Metrics
- Monetizing Technical Debt
- Constructing Roadmaps for Paying Back Technical Debt
- Risk Assessment and Mitigation
- A Simple Software Governance Framework
- Schedule in the Simple Governance Framework
- Enlightened Governance
- Baking in Quality One Build at a Time
- How Often Should the Project Team Regroup?
- Multi-Level Governance
- Extending Technical Debt Techniques to Devops
- Use of Technical Debt Techniques in Agile Portfolio Management
- The Start Afresh Option
- Technical Debt as an Integral Part of a Value Delivery Culture
In the course of going through a subset of these building blocks, we will cover the latest and greatest from the October issue of the Cutter IT Journal on technical debt, present two case studies, and conduct a few group exercises.
This is Not a “Me Too” Product
I had the distinct pleasure to discuss AgileEVM over dinner yesterday with its two “fathers” – Chris Sterling and Brent Barton. I was much impressed by the originality of the concept, the clear differentiation of the product and the laser focus on Earned Value Management (EVM) aspects.
Governance of the software development process is a topic that has been much discussed in various Cutter publications – see for example recent Cutter blog posts by Stephen Andriole, Robert Charette, Jim Highsmith, Vince Kellen, Masa Maeda, Michael Mah and me. Chris and Brent add a layer of EVM – both in terms of theoretical foundations and actual tool – to our spectrum of thoughts on governance. IMHO AgileEVM has the potential to induce a disruption in the way companies go about the business of governing software.
AgileEVM is particularly intriguing as a {product + professional services} combo. Chris and Brent are well-known as awesome Agile consultants. The opportunity to pick their brains twice – once through the product, a second time through a related consulting engagement with them – is most attractive.
The two “pages” below give a sense of the power of the product. Even better, simply download the product through the AgileEVM website.
Grab Chris or Brent for a 1-1 demo if you are at Agile 2010 this week. You will not be disappointed…
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