Two steps to become agile  A lot of companies today wants to
become “agile”. The $100.000.000 question is: How do you become
agile?   Elastic-, plastic- and fracture characteristics of code
I recently had a post about technical debt, and Jelena made a
very insightful comment that it was like elastic, plastic and
fracture characteristics of materials like steel. I started to
comment on the comment, but eventually I thought it deserved its
own post. More  Where is software quality going?  Yesterday I
was visiting Scania when their R&D department had a family-day
where they demonstrated what they are working with. Scania, for
those of you who don’t know, is famous for making high quality
trucks and buses. What struck me when we went from room to room
and hall to hall was that wherever we went, there was an
automated testing rig!   “Manual processes are risks”  The other
day I heard a person on my project say “Manual processes are
risks”. Generally, if you do something that has a risk, you want
to have a chance