Category Archives: development

Defect handling in an Agile approach

Software, as any complex product, will have defects. Plain and simple, no point in denying the facts. That said, the question is how can we handle them. First and foremost we should obviously strive to have as few as possible … Continue reading

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The Prince-iples of Agile

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about traditional project management methods. In part to understand why/where they fell short for software and what their use might be. Some elements in the agile community seem to feel very strongly that all … Continue reading

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The open source question

I’m tired. Tired of hearing yet another big bozo speech about how we will move to open source and how that will magically reduce our costs and make our software better. Gentlemen (and those few ladies who end up reading … Continue reading

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Embracing failure

The most burning question a business generally has for engineers is “when will it be finished”.  They are looking for a specific date and often a specific plan for how you’ll get there. They would most likely be overjoyed if … Continue reading

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Technical Debt

Technical debt is a concept which I never fully realized how accurately it is named. (I have to thank some colleagues for listening and discussing this subject on several occasions) For those not ‘in the know’…technical debt refers to dirty … Continue reading

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Product ownership

I’ve been catching up on agile development lately, more specific, on the scrum methodology. After sorting through various books, course material and tons of useful talks to colleagues, peers and agile people (not necessarily claiming they are agile but definitely … Continue reading

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Why we will not have senior developers anymore

I have the pleasure of working with some people who live and breath software development. Coming from the old days where assembly was new and cool and above all something that made you think about the inner workings of a … Continue reading

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