A True Metrics: Running Tested Features (RTF)

Running Tested Featured (RTF) and metrics that are truly valuable are important parts of agile. We will be diving into various metrics down the road a bit. In the mean time, please browse our latest post.

5 Essentials for Software Development Metrics

5 Essentials for software development metrics

#1 - MEANINGFUL

#2 - UP-TO-DATE

#3 - UNOBTRUSIVE

#4 - EMPIRICAL

#5 - ACTIONABLE


We will be getting in more depth about software development and key metrics in a post soon to come. In the mean time, please browse our more recent posts that address project management and scrum.

Standard Progress Reporting & Tracking

The timeline, parking lot, productivity, burn rate, burndown chart, testing, and attrition rate are all important things when dealing in scrum. This original article has been taken down because we have started this blog over with new weekly posts about scrum and all of the things dealing with implementation, execution, and evaluation. Please feel free to comment or email things that you are interested in reading about.

Scrum vs. RUP - The winner is...

Let's first outline both the scrum and rational unified process.

According to WikiPedia:

Scrum is an iterative, incremental framework for project management often seen in agile software development, a type of software engineering. 

Although the Scrum approach was originally suggested for managing product development projects, its use has focused on the management of software development projects, and it can be used to run software maintenance teams or as a general project/program management approach.

Here is a video that talks about scrum and what the scrum master does:

Now for RUP and what WikiPedia says:

The Rational Unified Process (RUP) is an iterative software development process framework created by the Rational Software Corporation, a division of IBM since 2003. RUP is not a single concrete prescriptive process, but rather an adaptable process framework, intended to be tailored by the development organizations and software project teams that will select the elements of the process that are appropriate for their needs.

Here is a video that talks about RUP here:

So, which process is better? SCRUM OR RUP? 

Well, there isn't a magic bullet or a one size fits all development process for everyone, so we aren't going to declare a winner. However, here, at Axosoft, we are biased towards Scrum because OnTime was made to be great agile scrum software, we still believe in other development processes.  We would be interested in learning more about what your thoughts are on both development processes. Contact us or post in the comments.

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