Whether your deadline is near or far, there will always be things on your team list that you don’t need to do. It’s tempting to take ownership of everything, all the servers, all the code, all the admin. As a team of top developers, you could also write a better timesheet management software than the … More Jettison sandbags to focus on your goal
Dream in years.Plan in months.Evaluate in weeks.Ship daily.— @dpatil — Michelle Lee (@mishmosh) January 12, 2017 Agile is about the here and the now. The moment, turning on a sixpence as the weather, and the market changes. Adapting to your environment and delivering, delivering, delivering at a consistent high quality. But what if you’re delivering … More The Fog
If you want a strong team of developers, give them autonomy. But what if they don’t want to take it? The ones in, or from, the big corporations who just won’t take the initiative? The ones who just want to be told what to do? I’ve said before that those are the waterfall people. The … More Naughtonomy
Agile is easy. Take the requirements, break them down into tasks, schedule them, do them, review them, test them, ship them. And then you realise, as many on the agile journey do, that your “spreadsheet import” task is too big. It doesn’t get finished in the same timescale as other tasks, so it sits on … More A task/story is not a feature
When I interview people for a job, I look for their skills, but most of all, I need people on my team who love to learn. I was thinking about this when I listened to Rick Strahl talking on .Net Rocks When I started developing, there was a lot of talk about certifications and becoming … More Good developers learn
There’s been a popular stereotype about good programmers being productively lazy. Automating tasks to avoid work. It’s an easy thing to share but I don’t think it’s quite true. It’s about reducing inefficiency. It’s not that developers don’t want to work, we want to do interesting work. Not repetitive work, not work that gets binned, … More ! Not the lazy programmer
There’s a ongoing debate about non-functional requirements: Non-Functional Requirements Are Not Nonsense and it’s a debate I’ve had within my teams as well. In most consulting projects I’ve seen, non-functional requirements are listed as a nice to have, rather than a must have. It’s not a matter of business logic vs. performance either. In one … More Non-functional requirements and terrific testers
Around 18 months ago, I decided I needed a new job. It took almost 8 months to find my current job, and I swayed between wanting to leave and wanting to stay. In the end I discovered that I was finding excuses to stay because I’d been there long enough, and made enough friends, to … More How do you know when it’s time to move job?
2016 was a big year for me. A new job, a new house and the first full year following the John Sonmez blogging course. I got back into public speaking, with my talk about APIs, and the follow-up usable APIs guided conversation at CodeCraftConf, although I missed out on the return of DDD Scotland. I … More My 2016 in review
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