Doing it right or doing it over?
(Adapted from an article in the Communications of the ACM blog.) I have become interested in agile methods because they are all the rage now in industry and, upon dispassionate examination, they appear...
View ArticleAgile book announced
My book “Agile! The Good, the Hype and the Ugly” will be published in a few weeks by Springer. The announced date is April 30 and there is a preview Amazon page: here. The post Agile book announced...
View ArticleAccurately Analyzing Agility
Book announcement: Agile! The Good, the Hype and the Ugly Bertrand Meyer Springer, 2014 (just appeared) Book page: here. Amazon page: here. Publisher’s page: here A few years ago I became fascinated...
View ArticleUnderstanding and assessing Agile: free ACM webinar next Wednesday
ACM is offering this coming Wednesday a one-hour webinar entitled Agile Methods: The Good, the Hype and the Ugly. It will air on February 18 at 1 PM New York time (10 AM West Coast, 18 London, 19...
View ArticleAgile methods: follow-up webinar and discussion
After my earlier ACM Webinar on Agile Methods! The Good, the Hype and the Ugly there were so many questions from the audience, left unanswered for lack of time, that a follow-up session has been set...
View ArticleAgile MOOC starts this week
In spite of all the interest in both agile methods and MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) there are few courses on agile methods; I know only of some specialized MOOCs focused on a particular language...
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Feature interactions, continued
Microsoft Office tools offer features for (1) spelling correction and (2) multi-language support. They are not very good at working together, another example of the perils of feature interaction....
View ArticleNew session of online Agile course starts now
Just about a year ago I posted this announcement about my just released Agile course: In spite of all the interest in both agile methods and MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) there are few courses on...
View ArticleDevops (the concept, and a workshop announcement)
One of the most significant recent developments in software engineering is the concept of Devops*. Dismissing the idea as “just the latest buzzword” would be wrong. It may be a buzzword but it reflects...
View ArticleThe end of software engineering and the last methodologist
(Reposted from the CACM blog [*].) Software engineering was never a popular subject. It started out as “programming methodology”, evoking the image of bearded middle-aged men telling you with a Dutch,...
View ArticleNew paper: making sense of agile methods
Bertrand Meyer: Making Sense of Agile Methods, in IEEE Software, vol. 35, no. 2, March 2018, pages 91-94. IEEE article page here (may require membership or purchase). Draft available here. An...
View ArticleThis Wednesday in Nice: survey talk on the Eiffel method
The “Morgenstern Colloquium” at the University of Nice / INRIA Sophia Antipolis invited me to give a talk, next Wednesday (18 December) at 11 in Sophia Antipolis, in the aptly named* “Kahn Building”....
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Time to resurrect PSP?
Let us assume for the sake of the argument that software quality matters. There are many ingredients to software quality, of which one must be the care that every programmer devotes to the job. The...
View ArticleSome contributions
Science progresses through people taking advantage of others’ insights and inventions. One of the conditions that makes the game possible is that you acknowledge what you take. For the originator, it...
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A standard plan for modern requirements
Requirements documents for software projects in industry, agile or not, typically follow a plan defined in a 1998 IEEE standard (IEEE 830-1998 [1]), “reaffirmed” in 2009. IEEE 830 has the merit of...
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New book: the Requirements Handbook
I am happy to announce the publication of the Handbook of Requirements and Business Analysis (Springer, 2022). It is the result of many years of thinking about requirements and how to do them right,...
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