3PD Blog
Tag: Software development
Invest in teams, not projects
Chris Micklethwaite
At IBM in the 90’s I was involved in number of client projects. It was before the days of collaborative, iterative and value-led software development approaches – back then formal project and ...
Agile and evolution are synonymous
Chris Micklethwaite
There are many discussion trends about the importance of formal methods and processes for software development. Whether it’s agile, lean, Kanban – there’s no doubt that process is cr...
Artful engineering
Chris Micklethwaite
In the 80’s and 90’s software development was viewed as 80% engineering and 20% design. This has changed, and someone recently described it to me as ‘artful engineering’, which...
Talent and vendors
Chris Micklethwaite
Seth Godin’s post on Talent and vendors is so true when you are procuring bespoke software… in fact so much so you can replace his use of the word ‘Artist’ with ‘Develope...