Thanks, Tim. Although I'm an electrical engineer by training, I have spend most of my adult (and child) life in software development. Like most in this field, I've been over the waterfall, done SET CMM, and worked in a number of "Level Zero" organizations that were passionate with no defined process. This is my second Agile adoption and we're about a month into it. I pinch myself everyday thinking that it is a dream how well things are going implementing this process. We are essentially using Scrum/Agile, Planning Poker for estimation (I've used Wide Band Delphi successfully for years) and we're using some tools to help us with this process including Rally for backlog, release, iteration and task management and CruiseControl for continuous builds.
One of the first things we did was to take all defects entered against v2.0 off of the bug tracker and load them into Rally. Now every defect, suggestion, idea, enhancement, etc. gets loaded into Rally and reviewed by our internal team. At this point, we are working through everything we consider seriously broken in the product. These items are pulled off of the backlog, placed in the release backlog, and then estimated by engineering. Based on user feedback, sales and the product owner, the items are ranked and then engineering pulls them out of the backlog into iterations (we like this term better than sprint even though we are using Scrum, predominantly rather than eXtreme programming). We are returning to the bug tracker and marking items as complete as we fix them in a release. I hope that it is visible that we are now making rapid progress working through issues and getting everything cleaned up for a commercial release of 2.0. Everyone here at FlexRadio is very passionate about what we're doing and I don't think there's a person involved in the development process that would not enjoy talking about what we're doing. So feel free to grab any of us at a show and ask us how it's working out! 73, Steve Stephen Hicks, N5AC, AAR6AM VP Engineering FlexRadio Systems™ 13091 Pond Springs Road, #250 Austin, TX 78729 Phone: 512-535-4713 x205 Email: [email protected] Web: www.flex-radio.com *Tune In Excitement™* PowerSDR™ is a trademark of FlexRadio Systems On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:48, Tim N9PUZ <[email protected]> wrote: > I think this move to a more structured release/development process is > yet another good step forward on the part of Flex and the development > team. Some may miss the daily SVN fix but I believe in the long run it > will mean better quality software in a timely manner for all of us. > (I'm not actually a Flex user yet but UPS promises me that will change > sometime today!) > > I'm also a software developer by profession. I hope that occasionally > Stephen you will post here or elsewhere an occasional report on how > adoption of the new processes is working and how it gets tweaked to > make it work best for Flex-Radio. > > 73, > > Tim N9PUZ > _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
