High Assurance Series Update

A few quick notes to those interested in the agile and high assurance and regulated environments series.. Whitepaper Update A draft of our whitepaper Agile Software Development with Verification and Validation in High Assurance and Regulated Environments was made available to attendees at Agile 2011 the week before last. If you’d like a copy, please [...]

Podcast: Building the Lean|Agile Enterprise

While I was thinking about my then-upcoming presentation entitled Five Keys to Building the Lean Agile Enterprise for Agile 2011, I was contacted by Joe Dager, owner of Business901, about doing a podcast on essentially the same topic. Joe did an excellent job of interviewing me and framing the discussion in pragmatic terms that are directly [...]

John Deere ISG Case Study: Reaching the Tipping Point

In an earlier post, we introduced the Agile transformation occurring at John Deere’s Intelligent Systems Group. In this post, we’ll describe some of the challenges and activities we encountered to get the development and management teams to the “agile tipping point” – the point at which we got the final green light for an “all [...]

Agile 2011 Presentation: Five Keys to Building the Lean|Agile Enterprise

I’ll be speaking at Agile 2011 this week on Wednesday at 9 AM. The presentation is entitled: Scaling Software Agility: Advanced Practices for Large Enterprises. The presentation highlights five key elements necessary to build the truly lean|agile software enterprise. Here is the topical outline. ➵Not Everything is a User Story: Scalable Agile Requirements ➵Think Agile [...]

Agile Software Requirements is Available in eBook Format.

I’m happy to finally announce that Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise, is again available in ebook form from InformIT. With the purchase ($31.99 at this writing) you can download it in PDF and EPUB format. PDF files work just fine on Mac and PC, and the EPUB format [...]

HIgh Assurance Series Update

I haven’t posted much in this category lately as I’ve been busy drafting and redrafting the new whitepaper: Agile Software Development with Verification and Validation in High Assurance and Regulated Environments. (Ok, I’ve been goofing off some, too.) But finally, Craig Langenfeld and I finished the final draft and it’s now in Rally’s hands for release. [...]

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