Agile Quality: A Canary in a Coal Mine
Posted by Christophe on January 12, 2008
Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber spoke at Agile2006 on code quality as a corporate asset. InfoQ presents video of his talk, The Canary in the Coalmine. Schwaber discussed how a degrading core codebase paralyses a team and negates any Agility gained through process improvement. He proposed strategies for management to identify, track and stop this downward spiral.
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ephes said
Link is broken, here’s the correct one:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/agile-quality-canary-coalmine
Christophe said
Fixed. Tx
my brief Agile faith crisis « savaged.info said
[...] it highlights what a whole organisation needs to change to make itself better. It is “the canary in a coal mine“. If we only take the bits that “get things done” we only maintain the status quo, or [...]