Posted on January 26th, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell
Background: In this series of posts, I’ve been using medical device development (as Regulated by U.S. FDA via CFR 820.30 and international standard IEC62304) as an exemplar for suggesting ways to develop high quality software in regulated (and other high assurance, high economic cost of failure) environments in an agile manner. This series is sponsored, [...]
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Posted on January 21st, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell
Background: In this series of posts, I’ve been using medical device development (as Regulated by U.S. FDA via CFR 820.30 and international standard IEC62304) as an exemplar for suggesting ways to develop high quality software in regulated (and other high assurance, high economic cost of failure) environments in an agile manner. This series is sponsored, [...]
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Posted on January 16th, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell
Series Background: In this series of posts, I’ve been using medical device development (as Regulated by U.S. FDA via CFR 820.30 and international standard IEC62304) as an exemplar for suggesting ways to develop high quality software in regulated (and other high assurance, high economic cost of failure) environments in an agile manner. This series is [...]
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Posted on January 13th, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell
My friend and colleague, Alex Yakyma, from Kiev, Ukraine, wrote this interesting whitepaper which describes how, based on the underlying mathematics, software complexity tends to be inherently higher than one might think. He also describes how refactoring, our key weapon in this battle, can be used to continuously manage complexity over time and thereby keep [...]
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Posted on January 5th, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell
Phew! As with any good agile release, where the availability of incremental and valuable content precedes the big event, the actual release of my new book, Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise, feels a bit anti-climatic. However, after a period of — well basically it felt like forever — [...]
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Posted on January 3rd, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell
I recently received an email from Dr. David F. Rico, (PMP, CSM) regarding the recent AFEI DoD Agile Development Conference, held on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 in Alexandria, Virginia. “The purpose of the conference was to promote agile acquisition and IT development practices in the U.S. DoD. AFEI is a non-profit organization who helps the [...]
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Posted on January 2nd, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell
Hi, This year end summary of Scaling Software Agility blog stats from wordpress might be interesting to some…. (or it might not!) -Dean ============================================= The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers [...]
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