Software Development
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An unambiguous software version scheme
When people talk about software versioning schemes they often refer to the commonly used X.Y.Z numerical scheme for versioning. This…
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Provocateurs Gather the Best Requirements
Ask someone what they want, and they’ll tell you they want a faster horse. Provoke them, and they’ll tell you…
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Technical Debt – when do you have to pay it off?
There are 2 times to think about technical debt: When you are building a system and making trade-off decisions between…
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Software Development tips and tricks
These are just some tips and tricks I learnt over my career that I’d like to share. This list does…
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Programming Like Kent Beck
Three of us, namely Stig, Krzysztof, and Jakub, have had the pleasure of spending a week with Kent Beck during…
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Can you get by without estimating? Should you try?
Estimating remains one of the hardest problems in software development. So hard in fact that more people lately are advocating…
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BAM, SOA & Big Data
Leveraging Big Data has become a commodity for most IT departments. It’s like the mobile phone. You can’t remember the…
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Pragmatic Thinking and Learning – how to think consciously about thinking and learning
Firstly, I think every programmer should read this book, even more, anyone whose career requires constant learning new things, skills…
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Don’t Prioritize Features!
Estimating the “value” of features is a waste of time. I was in a JAD session once where people argued…
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