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If there was a point I didn’t get it! The evil side of metrics is neither new nor specific to software development. For instance, measuring students’ performance through exams can make some of them study towards assessment not learning. Does that mean schools should stop trying to measure student’s performance?
The title led me to believe that the presentation is about the metrics that fit well in agile mindset and how to use them. Did I expect too much?
You did not expect too much, and I think it's a fair criticism that we didn't spend as much time on the possible solutions to the metrics dysfunctions as we would have liked. Jim summarized the approach nicely, but we would have enjoyed examining many of the metrics that the audience brought up, and looking for ways to find alternatives, or to use the "measure up" approach to mitigate dysfunction.
Moving performance metrics up to the level where individuals (or the teams measured) cannot directly alter the measure is the basic approach. Anonymous reporting, and aggregating the values, prevents that dysfunction, and turns a motivational metric into informational. It can still be used to measure performance, but it's at a higher level, and resembles something that we would really prefer to optimize, rather than setting up an opportunity for local optimization (gaming the system).
We're still exploring these techniques, and I'm hoping to shift the balance of the talk from so many examples of dysfunction into examples of practical techniques to remove the dysfunction.
Brian Marick takes us through a quick tour of the most important values and challenges to adopting Agile successfully (they aren't the typical challenges and values we hear in the community).
The line between development and architecture is tricky. Does it exist at all? Is an ivory tower actually needed? There's a balance in the middle, but how do you move from developer to architect?
The word 'authority' sometimes produces an allergic response in hard-line agilists. Freedom and authority – both are bad if misused and both are good if used in right spirit for a noble cause.
"Getting Started with Grails" brings you up to speed on this modern web framework. Companies as varied as LinkedIn, Wired, and Taco Bell are all using Grails. Are you ready to get started as well?
Those familiar with only ITIL V2 often scoff at the thought that ITIL could serve as a governance framework for SOA. With ITIL V3, the focus of the framework shifted towards service-orientation.
SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer discusses AspectJ, SpringSource's dm Server and tc Server products, OSGi and Scrum.
Heroku's Adam Wiggins talks about Rails, Background Jobs, Add-Ons, Ruby, and how Heroku manages to work around Ruby's inefficiencies using Erlang and other languages.
For Grady Booch the foundation of a good architecture is patterns, SOA being just one of many patterns. In this Second Life presentation, Booch attempts to bring more clarity on what architecture is.
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