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Topics on software development to help you to streamline the requirements, project, and engineering processes across companies ranging in size from start-ups to Fortune 500. Whether you have traditional or Agile project management, we can help you to reduce your software development cycle and increase software quality.

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Let the Machines Take Over

Let the Machines Take Over

Accelerated Development ― Whether you believe that the machines will take over or not will always be up for debate (until they actually take over :-). What is not up for debate is that many processes for software creation have been automated and can help improve ...

Tags: Productivity, Developers, Testing, Automation, Quality, Requirements

Accelerated Dev ― 1 week 6 days ago

To be, or not to be... Formal

To be, or not to be... Formal

Accelerated Development ― What the heck is a formal process? Is it in the category of you know it when you see it? ∙ A formal process is a methodical way of tackling any repetitive process so that it can be handled in a standardized way. The idea of formality is ...

Tags: Productivity, Developers, Hygiene, Quality, Formality, Executive

Accelerated Dev ― 2 weeks 1 day ago

Agility is not Informality

Agility is not Informality

Accelerated Development ― Agility is about following the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, not the sloppy and crazy implementations of Scrum, XP, or other home-grown schemes out there. ∙ Sometimes I feel like people are using Agility as an excuse to be...

Tags: Productivity, Developers, Scrum, Agile, Quality, Formality

Accelerated Dev ― 2 weeks 4 days ago

Who needs formal measurement?

Who needs formal measurement?

Accelerated Development ― We all know the expression "You can't manage what you can't measure", but do we really understand it? ∙ After execution, feedback is an essential part of all processes. Just think about how difficult it would be to drive from home to work...

Tags: Productivity, Developers, Hygiene, Formality, Project Management, Executive

Accelerated Dev ― 2 weeks 5 days ago

Not Planning is for Losers

Not Planning is for Losers

Accelerated Development ― Only the ignorant don't plan their code pathways before they write them. Unless you are implementing classes of only getter and setter routines code needs to be planned. ∙ We talk about The Path Least TraveledThe total number of pathways...

Tags: Productivity, Developers, Planning, Quality, Requirements

Accelerated Dev ― 2 weeks 6 days ago

Why Management Declared Deadlines Lead to Disaster

Why Management Declared Deadlines Lead to Disaster

Accelerated Development ― Senior management, in the face of market pressure, will sometimes initiate a project to address a business need that has a management declared deadline. ∙ Management will do this when they feel market pressures to create a new software...

Accelerated Dev ― 5 weeks 6 days ago

Defects are for Losers

Defects are for Losers

Accelerated Development ― A developer is responsible for using any and all techniques to make sure that he produces defect free code. The average developer does not take advantage of all of the following opportunities to prevent and eliminate defects: ∙ Before the...

Tags: Productivity, Developers, Testing, Quality

Accelerated Dev ― 7 weeks 6 days ago

No Experience Required!

No Experience Required!

Accelerated Development ― Did you know that we have never found a relationship between a programmer’s amount of experience and code quality or productivity? ∙ The original study that found huge variations in individual programming productivity was conducted in...

Tags: Productivity, Developers, Quality, Executive

Accelerated Dev ― 13 weeks ago

Death March Calculus

Death March Calculus

Accelerated Development ― In the previous post Stop It! No… really stop it. we talked about 5 worst practices and their impact on a software project. However, all 5 worst practices will be present in a Death March. ∙ Ed Yourdon, one of the pioneers in software...

Tags: Productivity, Developers, Resources, Project Management, Executive

Accelerated Dev ― 20 weeks ago

Stop It! No… really stop it.

Stop It! No… really stop it.

Accelerated Development ― There are 5 worst practices in software development that if stopped immediately will improve your productivity by a minimum of 12% and improve quality by a minimum of 15%. ∙ These practices are so common that people assume that they are...

Accelerated Dev ― 21 weeks ago

Testing Departments are for Losers

Testing Departments are for Losers

Accelerated Development ― I understand that this is a very strong statement and I'm definitely not trying to insult anyone; so apologies in advance. I'm trying to challenge the belief that testing is mandatory and that there should be one testing resource for every two...

Tags: QA, Developers, Testing, Quality

Accelerated Dev ― 23 weeks ago

Software Professionals do Inspections (Hacks do not)

Software Professionals do Inspections (Hacks do not)

Accelerated Development ― Are you a software professional or not? ∙ I'm not talking about having some kind of official certification here. I'm asking whether creating high quality code on a repeatable basis is your top priority. ∙ Professionals do...

Tags: Developers, Quality

Accelerated Dev ― 27 weeks ago

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