Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - (Page 67)

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Publication on Statement of Ownership for a Requested Publication is required and will be printed in the November 2008 issue of this publication. 17. Signature and TItle of Editor, Publisher, Business Manager, or Owner Jonathan Erickson, Editor The Surveys In July 2008, I ran two surveys to explore what was actually going on out there. The Dr. Dobb’s Modeling and Documentation Survey was with the DDJ readership, which has a range of readers doing everything from ad-hoc development to very traditional development. The request to respond to the survey was sent out to the Dr. Dobb’s mailing list and advertised on Jonathan Erickson’s blog. There were 279 respondents. 54.8 percent were developers, 25.4 percent were in management, and the rest in other roles. When it comes to IT experience, 33.3 percent had 10–20 years and 41.6 percent had 20+ years. The source data (without identifying information), the questions as they were asked, and summary slides are available at www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ modelingDocumentation2008.html. The Ambysoft 2008 Agile Practices and Principles Survey ran the last week of July and focused on agile software development teams. The survey was announced on the Agile Modeling, Agile Database, Extreme Programming, Agile Project Management, and Scrum Development mailing lists. There were 337 respondents, 37 percent were developers and 37 percent in management. 42 percent had 10-20 years of IT experience and 17 percent had 20+ years. The source data, questions, and summary slide deck are available at www.ambysoft.com/surveys/practicesPrinciples2008.html. —S.W.A. that agile teams are more likely to model than traditional teams, that they prefer sketching rather than creating detailed documentation using SBMTs. Differences such as this can be confusing for anyone not familiar with disciplined agile strategies. There is a wealth of material available online about how agile development teams approach modeling and documentation. The AMDD best practices are to do some initial requirements and architecture envisioning early in the project to write executable specifications via a TestDriven Development (TDD) approach, to single source information whenever possible, to write documentation later in the lifecycle, to promote active stakeholder participation, to implement requirements in priority order, to include modeling in iteration/sprint planning activities, to create models and documents that are just barely good enough for the situation at hand, to model storm the details on a justin-time (JIT) basis, to sometimes model a bit ahead to explore complex requirements, and to take a multiview approach via multiple models. A description of these best practices can be found at www.agilemodeling.com/essays/bestPractices.htm. We Need to Do Better It is possible to achieve value from effective modeling and documentation practices, but unfortunately many organizations aren’t taking advantage of these practices. Dr. Dobb’s Modeling and Documentation Survey found that 80 percent of people are learning to model through on the job experience, 28 percent from mentoring by an experienced modeler, 18 percent through university or college courses, 9 percent from modeling training, and 5 percent by modeling tool training. It seems to me that if our approach to learning how to model was a bit less haphazard, then there wouldn’t be as many myths and misunderstandings around modeling, and more importantly that we could leverage modeling practices and tools more effectively. DDJ Scott is Practice Leader Agile Development for IBM Rational. I certify that the information furnished on this form is true and complete. 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Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 Contents Friday Night Fish Fry Alia Vox Developer Diaries Developer's Notebook Saving Open Source Conversations iPhone Building Your Own Web Server Green Telnet What's New In Boost Threads? Testing Service Oriented Architectures Test Case Generation, UML, and Eclipse Unit Testing Web Services C3 Programming The Agile Edge Swaine's Flames Effective Concurrency

Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008

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