Software Process and Measurement Cast

Check out Software Process and Measurement Cast 277. SPaMCAST 277 features our essay on Scrumban. Scrumban is the combination of Kanban (lean) and Scrum (Agile) techniques. Each contributes different things to the hybrid framework. Kanban contributes a focus on flow, while Scrum contributes a focus on people and timeframe. Together, both focuses bring value to process improvement. The understandin...

Check out Software Process and Measurement Cast 276. The SPaMCAST 276 features my interview with Dr. Penny Pullan. We discussed her book, Business Analysis and Leadership: Influencing Change, the impact of business analysts on projects and how to make project more effective. Dr. Pullan has led her consulting firm, Making Projects Work Ltd., since 2007. Penny works with people in multi-national org...

Check out Software Process and Measurement Cast 275. The SPaMCAST 275 features our essay on leadership. Leaders and leadership are important, perhaps more important with Agile and lean techniques that no longer use command and control management techniques. Even if you believe that leaders are born, the ability to lead can be honed and developed. Managers typically draw on their hierarchal positio...

Check out Software Process and Measurement Cast 274. The SPaMCAST 274 features our interview with Jeremy Berriault. We talked about testing, test professionalism and testing in academia. Sometimes it is easy to forget that testing is one of the primary tools to manage quality in software development and that test professionals are a core part of any development department. Jeremy’s bio tells us th...

Check out Software Process and Measurement Cast 273. The SPaMCAST 273 features our essay on gamification and a new installment of Steve Tedon's column: Tame The Flow. Gamification is a tool to support process improvement. It is a technique that leverages a player's innate competitive drive to channel their behavior using game mechanisms. The goal is to have individuals, teams, and organizations ad...

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 272. The SPaMCAST 272 features my interview with Jeff Anderson. We talked about The Lean Change Method and the book of the same title! Jeff's Bio: My mission in life is to help technology knowledge workers be awesome at what they do. Having been in the market since 1994, I have harnessed my initial passion for agile software engineering to provi...

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 271. The SPaMCAST 271 features our essay titled Revisiting the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. As this is the first new podcast of 2014 we felt that it a good time to reflect and retool with a bit of Stephen Covey!. The essay begins: Approximately 23 years ago I was in the middle of the second of three process improvement program reboots br...

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 270. The SPaMCAST 270 features my interview with Allan Shalloway. We talked lean, Kanban and SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework). A great interview to end the old year and bring in the new year! Al Shalloway is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With over 40 years of experience, Al is an industry thought leader in Lean, SAFe, Kanban, product portf...

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 269. The SPaMCAST 269 features our essay on Kanban. It really is all about the flow. Also in the Software Process Measurement Cast 269 we begin a new column called Tame the Flow featuring the ideas and advice of Steve Tendon. The essay begins: Kanban, which means signal card in Japanese, has been a staple of lean auto manufacturing for years thr...

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 268 The Software Process and Measurment Cast features my interview with Gene Hughson. We discussed agile, solution architecture, people, processes and his blog, Form Follows Function. An early holiday present! Gene Hughson is an Applications Manager for Fidelity National Financial in Richmond, Virginia. Gene has over 17 years of experience in so...

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 267 features our essay on story mapping. Story mapping is a very powerful and under used tool for getting a handle on the big picture. SPaMCAST 267 also features Kim Pries with more logical problems. The essay on story mapping begins: Product backlogs are lists of “work to be done” at different levels of granularity and priority. They can be lar...

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 266 features my interview with Raja Bavani. We discussed distributed agile! We also discussed the new Global Distributed Agile Consortium (GDAC) to nurture an open community of practice and promote knowledge sharing. Visit http://blog.distributedagile.org Raja Bavani is Chief Architect of Mindtree and plays the role of Agile Evangelist. Raja has...

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 265 The Software Process and Measurement Cast 265 features our essay on retrospectives. Retrospectives are part of most methodologies, even though there are many different terms. For instance, most waterfall frameworks call them post implementation reviews or postmortems. And each methodology focuses on different nuances. Agile, as a macro set o...

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 264 The Software Process and Measurement Cast 264 features my interview with Alexei Zheglov. We discussed lean, work-in-process limits and flow. A summary of Alexei's bio from LinkedIn . . . How does value flow through your knowledge-work organization? The reality for many knowledge-work organizations today is, not very well. Therefore, we need...

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 263 The Software Process and Measurement Cast 263 our essay on Transactional Analysis. People are the heart of the interactions that drive every organization and team. Increasing the effectiveness of communication between people will directly translate to higher productivity. To improve communication you need to develop an understanding of psych...

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 262 features my interview with Kevin Kruse (@Kruse) best selling author of Employee Engagement for Everyone. If you are involved with people and want to improvement engagement this is an important interview Kevin's Bio Serial entrepreneur and bestselling author, Kevin Kruse, used a relentless focus on talent and employee engagement to build and sell severa...

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 261 The Software Process and Measurement Cast 261 features our essay on distributed agile. Distributed agile takes effort but can pay HUGE benefits. The essay begins: What is distributed Agile? The phrase distributed Agile is often used indiscriminately, therefore definitions can cover a wide range of situations and evoke a wide range of emotion...

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 260 The Software Process and Measurement Cast 260 features my interview with Dr Richard Sykes. Dr Sykes is the chair of the Board of Directors of the TMMi Foundation. The TMMi is the Testing Maturity Model Integration. When it comes to testing the TMMI is more than just a model! Dr Richard Sykes is a businessman with a breadth of involvement & e...

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 259 The Software Process and Measurement Cast 259 features an essay title Agile Testing. Testing is an important step in the delivery of any piece of software. It is the processes required to find and remove defects from functionality before that functionally is delivered into production. For those of you that have not written code or been an in...

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 258 The Software Process and Measurement Cast 258 features my interview with Steve Tendon! Steve focuses on helping to create high-performance organizations and teams. He is also the the author of Tame the Flow. Are you ready to make the jump to hyper-productivity? Steve's Bio: Steve is a senior, multilingual, executive management consultant, ex...

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 257 The Software Process and Measurement Cast 257 features the essay "Why Agile Implementations Fail." Unfortunately failure seems to be an option. Why? Is it always a bad thing? Measurement Cast has a sponsor . . . As many you know I do at least one webinar for the IT Metrics and Productivtity Intstiute (ITMPI) every year. The ITMPI provides a...

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 256 The Software Process and Measurement Cast 256 features my second interview with Kenny Rubin. We talked about Scrum as well as economic frameworks for applying agile. An incredible interview! Kenny Rubin provides Scrum and agile training and coaching to help companies develop products in an effective and economically sensible way. A Certified...

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 255 The Software Process and Measurement Cast 255 features the essay Project Management is Dead, Long Live Project Management. The role is what is at issue rather than the concept. The cast also includes Kim Pries's column. Kim addresses the use of checklists. What a SHOW! The Software Process and Measurement Cast has a sponsor . . . As many you...

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 254 The Software Process and Measurement Cast 254 features my interview with Matt Heusser. We discussed agile and testing. It was a great interview full of thought provoking discussion and controversial ideas. Matthew Heusser is the managing consultant at Excelon Development, where he focuses on software project delivery and risk management. A b...

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 253 The Software Process and Measurement Cast 253 features the essay titled, Cognitive Bias and Effective Teams. Effective teams build an understanding of the capabilities and biases of each member and the team as whole. The most effective means of a team learning about itself is by working together towards a common goal. The essay begins . . ....