Another short note: The last year I spent a considerable amount of time with a very interesting team. They are building a unified hotel platform that will replace all the existing systems. The design is based on Service-Oriented Architecture concepts. It’s a significant project - their budget exceeds 100k hours and they are predicting to […]
The beginning of a new year is often the time of setting goals. Way too often I need to explain why it’s a bad idea to judge developers’ performance by code coverage, story pints accomplished or lines of code that she wrote. Here is one more argument against it:
The manual worker can always be judged […]
Some time ago a good friend of mine and I discussed whether test-driving distributed applications is a nice and natural solution. Today, when I was preparing my presentation for Java Developers Day, I test-drove a sample one.
My goal was to enable parallel execution of a class doing some computations. I needed just 9 tests - […]
I’ve just read another article about designing Service size. The interesting observation here is that it’s not always the case that atomic Services are fine-grained and composite Services coarse-grained. Actually these are two orthogonal dimensions:
I hear this question quite often.
I might answer that according to certain research over 80% of Agile projects are successful, but how meaningful such response is? It only provokes more questions:
“Why 20% of them fail?“
“Isn’t it that Agile is applied only to small projects, which are more likely to succeed?“
“Do you consider all projects that […]
At first glance SOA and Agile don’t have much in common. One of them is architecture and the other is methodology. At second it’s not that obvious. Agile discourages “big design up front”, which - some may argue - is inevitable part of Service Oriented Architecture.
An interesting approach to this issue is presented in one […]
This Thursday at WSZiB two meetings will be held. First of them is Krakow’s Software and System Processes Improvement Network meeting where, as I promised last month, (I hope - Susan Finch and) I will answer attendees’ questions about Agile software engineering and project management practices. The second is even more interesting. At Polish Agile […]
I’ve just returned from a two-week trip to London where I helped one of our teams to ramp up test-driving their project. Although we didn’t have as much time as I’d like, I’m really impressed by their development skills and passion! Unfortunately due to tight schedule my presentation at CONFidence 2007 had to be canceled.
Now, […]
I’ve just uploaded yesterday’s presentation, it’s available in Download section. It’s a bit similar to the one given at CONFidence Conference, however I removed an introduction to grid computing and heavily extended part devoted to Shibboleth, GridShib and alike. Additionally, I added a few more slides on my ideas how could Virtual Organizations for Open […]
Tomorrow I’m going to give another presentation on security in grid computing, it will be held on Cracow Grid Seminar (its abstract is available on IT w Krakowie web page). Unfortunately I didn’t manage to prepare the slides earlier and I’m working on them now. Power Point crashed three times in last two hours. This […]