If you want to improve a business, where do you look for information? Here are four possibilities: * Effort * Output * Outcome * Impact In the next video we’ll describe the tradeoffs between these observations. Also, this is an experiment in a Memoji style of presentation. Let me know what you think in the comments.
“Quality is the relative state compared to a predetermined specification, defined in terms of quantitative evidence of qualitative change.” Berk Kibarer * “quantitive evidence of qualitative change” quote’s been borrowed from Kent Beck (His definition of metric on Twitter…)
In this completely revised introduction to Extreme Programming (XP), Kent Beck describes how to improve your software development by integrating these highly desirable concepts into your daily development process. The first edition of Extreme Programming Explained is a classic. It won awards for its then-radical ideas for improving small-team development, such as having developers write automated tests for their own code and having the whole team plan weekly. Much has changed in five years. This completely rewritten second edition expands the scope of XP to teams of any size by suggesting a…