IBMs Rational brand has its annual users conference – IBM Innovate – next week, in Orlando, FL. I am really looking forward to it. Having worked for Rational for over a decade, it is my ‘home conference’ and my favorite (Yes, I am biased. What can I say?). All developers, development managers, executives and consultants…
What’s on my Kindle?
In full disclosure, these books are not all on my Kindle. In fact, I don’t even own a Kidle device. I use the Kindle app on my iPad. Some of these books are in that app. Some in Apple’s iBooks app and even a couple in the Nook app. I also have a lot of…
What do tools and automation buy me?
As someone working in technical sales, one of the questions I have been asked hundreds of times is why do we need tools? I mean, we could just code in a text editor or in Emacs or VI, like we did in the old days. Build and deployment can be done with hand written scripts…
JavaScript… really?
How JavaScript has become the language of choice for Web and Mobile I learnt programming ussing the C programming language, on UNIX. That’s as nerdy as you can get. Where else can you manipulate bits with code and have to alloc your own memory. And pointers; that’s how real programmers write code. You have not…
So, what is ‘Water-SCRUM-fall’?
The realities of Agile in the Enterprise When I first heard the term ‘Water-SCRUM-fall’ from a customer, I thought it was a tongue-in-cheek comment describing their dysfunctional approach to agile or probably a reference to a Dilbert strip I had missed. Then I heard a VP of development at IBM mention it on an internal…
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