Nigel on Agile

On the Software Engineering Productivity forum, I noticed Michael Surkan write a provocative take on whether we should let our kids be software developers. He wrote: “This is tongue in cheek, but I think the question about what careers we would recommend our children go into is a valid one. Is software engineering still a [...]

9/21/2010: We posted a video to our site of this. Click here to view. Having just blogged about the failure of tool providers to provide good documentation tools, I thought I’d like to show a few screen shots of what we’re working on. This blog demonstrates an early prototype of the documentation functionality of the [...]

The vast majority of software development teams are dissatisfied with their development process. I believe 50% of the problems are traceable to bad documentation management tools. This blog discusses the state of documentation management tools for software projects, and suggests some concepts for improvement. 95% of software projects manage documentation with Microsoft Word, augmented sometimes [...]

Agile ruined Daniel Markham’s life. Read about it here. Because Daniel Markham is an experienced and perceptive Agile practitioner, it’s tempting to think the sky must be falling, and Agile is going to go the way of so many other trendy methodologies that have promised so much, and delivered so little. Markham’s article is witty [...]

Update: May 25, 2011. The link now downloads a compileable solution with tests that provide examples of how to make calls to the API.  We’re building an application that uses the Team Foundation Server 2010 API. I see a lot of people struggling with how to program against this API. And with good reason. We’ve [...]

In this blog we’ll look at how the Exia Process can help with project planning. I’m using the current Beta version of the Exia Process which is available for download from our web site at www.exia.net. By the way, we’re trying to design the Exia Process to be as fast and easy to use as [...]

It’s time to start blogging about using the Exia Process. We’re getting closer to shipping the Exia Process Release 1 so, like development shops around the world, we’re coding away furiously. We’re a small company, and I’m the owner, which means I do everything from coding to sweeping the floors. Right now I’m coding up [...]