Use Constant Feedback to Improve Your Process

What's the best way to use tools like continuous integration or 6th Sensor Analytics? Should we see a problem and hit developers over the head? Scream and run around? Or force developers to follow a rigid set of steps to "guarantee" success? (Herd those cats!)

Much of Agile is about being flexible. It's about getting feedback and adjusting your daily practices to match. This is why so many people have rejected the idea of universal best practices completely.

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Software Metrics Don’t Kill Projects, Moronic Managers Kill Projects

I don't like to create "link blog postings" but Alberto Savoia created a gem with this entry. He points out that just because someone dumb abuses a tool, it's not a bad tool. It means the dumb person is, well, just dumb.

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