Musings of a Software Development Manager

Continuous Integration can be a great place to do governance. With good reason developers get the shakes when someone mentions we need more governance. Past history has taught them governance often means someone above them says no. Continuous integration allows you to inject good development practices and ensure some governance without having to always be [...]

Dave Nicholette argued recently that Enterprise Architecture and Agile are not compatible partners: The mission, scope, tools, mentality, culture, and personality types of enterprise architects and agilists are so radically different that (in my view) they call for separate administrative subdivisions in the enterprise. Not only is the nature of their work different, but the [...]