At work this week there was a very good talk about "Scrum Et Al", given by Ken Schwaber.
Executive summary: Go watch this, if you're at all interested in Agile teams and iterative development, it's definitely worth your time.
What struck me most while watching this, was how much I wished I had gotten around to reading something about it years ago. (I still haven't, but this video is enough to get me interested now.) At my last job, we were doing something informal, but not too far off of this. Quarterly releases, along with a relentless pace of new features, improving interfaces, improving security, improving developer productivity, etc. Seeing this talk reaffirms my belief that the only good way to build software products is iteratively. Being able to say, "I only need to worry about X right now." and sitting down and doing X, getting it done, clean, bugfixed, and then being able to say, "Ok, what's next?", all the while having a product that can be released at basically any time, maybe multiple times, and a simply relentless pace of improvements? This is great! Unfortunately, I don't think very many business majors have figured this out yet.
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