Everything I Know About Project Management, I Learned from Game of Thrones
In George R.R. Martin’s masterful series, A Song of Ice and Fire (currently an HBO television show, Game of Thrones), many characters in... more »
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Daniel Cook on 8 Laws of Productivity
Daniel Cook has a great PDF on the 8 Laws of Productivity. The subtitle is “8 Productivity Experiments You Don’t Need to Repeat.”... more »
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Pair Programming Benefits: Part 2 - The Rest
When last we spoke, I discussed some of the pleasant discoveries that I had in my initial pair programming outings. In this post,... more »
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5 Steps to Improve E-Commerce Performance for Increased Sales: Backend Performance
In the previous post we presented problems encountered by our client TescaraHats (name changed for commercial reasons), a European market... more »
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The Kirk and Spock Approaches to Big Data
In the Star Trek Book of Management, there are two approaches to big data decision making: The Kirk way and the Spock way. Which type are you?
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No-nonsense plain English introduction to ESB and SOA
A quick no-nonsense introduction to key concepts behind ESB and SOA. This is part of Zato, a Python-based ESB and app server.
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Strategies for Scaling Agile Software Development
A fair question to ask is why should your organization consider adopting the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) process... more »
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What if Enterprise IT Built Race Cars?
How a race car would turn out if it were developed by the equivalent of an Enterprise IT department (without DevOps).
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Things to Consider When Featuring Branching with Continuous Integration
So you’re using Continuous Integration and Mercurial as your VCS. CI is great, you’re loving the feedback and feeling good after a green... more »
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Teaching programming, we have a huge problem
I’ve been a professional programmer now for over a decade, and during this time I’ve met a LOT of excellent programmers. Most of them are... more »
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Using Peer Code Reviews as a Professional Development Tool
Over the years, I have had the privilege of working with hundreds of developers. Overall, I have found them to be intelligent, witty,... more »
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Data-Driven Test Automation
Greetings, fellow testers. I recently attended a workshop on Acceptance Test Driven Development, during which the presenter spoke about... more »
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Legacy Code Preservation: Some Patterns
With modern languages and tools, legacy code conversion is quite simple. The impediments are simply managerial in nature. No one wants to... more »
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Mastering the Requirements Process
In an era where managing requirements could seem to be limited to writing user stories with a “as a … I want … so that” format on a... more »
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Getting Teams to Deliver Predictably
As recently as this week, I’ve been involved in conversations with customers about how we can help make their teams deliver more... more »
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Escape Process’ Death Valley, or How to Tell a Cat From a Washing Machine
More and more leading edge thinkers are starting to focus on this dichotomy of approaches – organic vs mechanical. Each rightly has it’s... more »
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Domain Events with Ninject and ASP.Net Web API
How to hook up domain events to concrete implementations using Ninject as an IoC container and the ASP.Net Web API.
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SOA Certified Architect: Module 1
I understand that certification is not for everyone, but in my case I felt that because SOA is surrounded by so many myths, legends and... more »
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Book Review: The Economics of Software Quality by Capers Jones
The Economics of Software Quality, a book by Capers Jones and Olivier Bonsignour, provides solutions to quantify Software Quality which... more »
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5 Hints for the New Product Owner
When I was project manager at Typemock, did I learn anything about becoming the product owner in an agile company? Let me give you five... more »
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Fluent APIs and Method Chaining
Eric Feminella explains how to use the method chaining pattern to both simplify your API and make it more fluent.
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Cognitive Endurance Basics for Developers
A Triathlon requires diverse skills, you not only have to run, but to swim and to bike, and, as we know, good software developers need... more »
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The Appreciation Gap
A simple thank you can make a difference; appreciation builds good will, and reminds people that they are valued as human beings, not... more »
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Analytics at Spotify
Remove bias, Acquire Data.
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UML Model Organization with Packages and the Package Diagram
It is no coincidence that the package element in UML is represented by a folder icon, similar to directories in a file system Graphical... more »
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