I want to give you a little introduction to my latest InfoQ article on Technical Debt, which I wrote together with my former colleague Eberhard Wolff. We work with new, small and cool systems, but also with large and old systems (= these systems were really valuable over many many years!). Large means 50 to […]
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Author: Sven Johann
QCon London 2013 – Agile in Actuality, Open Data, Latin as a Programming Language
After an exciting few days at the QCon conference in London last week, I am slowly recovering from all the new input I got, and decided to do this by writing a little summary of “all things agile” from the Thursday as well as the highlights the other two days too. Cherry Picking Wednesday On […]
Beyond classical contracting
There is an interesting approach from the German IT service provider Adesso AG and the Ruhr Institute for Software Technology on how to balance project risks between service providers and their customers within a new contracting model, which is a combination of fixed price and Time & Material approaches. I want to give a brief […]
Agile Campfire-Romance
Just to get us started, have you ever had a look on the original paper describing the waterfall model? You really should, have look at it. What you see is surprising; the author shows the famous waterfall diagram on page 2 and directly below he writes “… the implementation described above is risky and invites […]
Be thoughtful when measuring Technical Debt with Sonar
Technical Debt (TD) is the gap between perfectly developing software and the reality (ship date, skills of the engineers, tools available, working environment). You get it, when you take shortcuts that fall short on good practices. As in finance, not all debt is bad. Take a debt to buy a house is mostly a good […]