Agile & Process

In 1995, Watts Humphrey handed every developer a personal process. It failed. His Personal Software Process (PSP) let a single developer run a defined, measured, continuously improving process. It worked, but the bookkeeping killed it. Time logs, defect logs, forms after every task. Almost nobody could sustain it. Humphrey moved on to team processes, and […]

Introduction: Picking Fruit from the Orchard There are fruit orchards you are allowed to enter, pick the fruit with your own hands, and, after paying the grower, take home the fruit you have hand-picked yourself. As far as I have learned, these are called U-Pick orchards. A few days ago, after a long period of […]