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March 10, 2010
Dead-End Heroes
Apart from the wonderful scottish accent there was one train of thought that particularly caught my interest in SE-Radio Episode 156: Kanban with David Anderson: Estimation is a choice! Estimates lead to commitments that drive a dysfunction t...
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February 26, 2010
Phrases that should set off an alarm in every software developers brain
In software development there are some requirements that should immediately trigger all available bells in your subconscious alarming system: This must be in real-time The system must support historisation The system must support multitenancy...
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February 25, 2010
Inspiring talks
Sometimes we have to look beyond our noses. This is especially true when we are getting bogged in the trenches of corporate IT, getting lost in the big ball of mud, filling our brains with WTF from reading wagon-loads of legacy code... Here are ...
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February 17, 2010
Software: Sadly we did adopt from the construction analogy
In the software industry we often use analogies from civil engineering. We use terms like "architecture" and "construction". But there is a common claim that we should learn more from classical engineering disciplines like civil engineering. Ac...
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February 12, 2010
The Agile Testing Quadrants
Discovering the Agile Testing Quadrants was close to an epiphany to me. They helped me to think much clearer about the different concepts, disciplines and fields of software testing. The original concept is from Brian Marick, but the quadra...
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