Meeting with the experts: Architecture and Design
I met with two architecture experts in the tech lounge:
Mario Cardinal
- Agile Software Development
- Software Modeling and Design
Peter Provost (was the host of the Agile development breakout session earlier this morning)
- Patterns and Practices
- Application Blocks
- Agile Development
We talked about what we could do at Clark County to improve our Dev Cycle time, provide better project documentation, and get more out of our EXTREMELY limited resources.
They think that Agile development would benefit us by providing the documentation that the Auditors and Managers want while still allowing us to have smaller dev cycles that produce quicker results for the customers.
They recommended two books that talk about implementing Agile Development. They show cases where it has been successfull and productive as well as the HOWTO implement.
Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide by Craig Larman
Agile Project Management with Scrum (Microsoft Professional) by Ken Schwaber (2004)
posted by RichardV @ 8:55 AM
3 comments
3 Comments:
I think those book resources sound very worthwhile to check into.
Maybe we can get some buy in of this sort of Agile "methodology", rather than living in the Stone Age with the cumbersome Waterfall Methdology.
I think the main difference is how accurate the methodology is.
If anything the Agile method recognized the strengths and weaknesses of the developers and then capitalizes on them.
True, but I think it also is positive in that the newer generation of development tools also lend themselves to this agile/iterative approach, whereas some of the older languages shine under the Waterfall.
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