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5 Things That Will Make Your Agile Development Project FAIL
Far too many Agile development projects fail. It is hard to even accurately measure the number of failures because so many software development projects end up “complete” and shipped, ...
Understanding the Vertical Slice
One of the biggest challenges in breaking down backlogs is knowing how to split up the work from a backlog into right sized pieces. I’ve already talked about the concept that smaller ...
Even Backlogs Need Grooming
Imagine this common scenario if you will. One of your friends calls you up and says: “Hey, would you mind helping me move on Saturday, I am getting 4 or 5 people together and we are ...
Add APPLY to Your TSQL Tool Belt
Every once in a while I stumble across some SQL keyword that I didn’t really know about, but is extremely useful. The other day I came across APPLY, or rather CROSS APPLY. After reading ...
What is Dependency Inversion? Is it IoC?
Today we are going to talk about one of the most confusing topics of all and see if we can unravel the mess of Dependency Inversion, Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection. It’s ...
Breaking Down an Agile process Backlog
The process of breaking down a backlog is one of the most important steps in any Agile process. I have found over the years that the better a backlog is broken down the smoother the ...
Selling Yourself: Why? and How!
I know many good developers who are under the impression that they either don’t have to sell themselves, or selling themselves is wrong, but is that really true? First let me clarify ...
