A few years back I worked with a customer who ran a WordPress-based e-commerce site. As a way of boosting sales, the Marketing department had come up with a coupon...
Communication is the core of software development. We shape our solutions through conversations with customers, stakeholders and colleagues. We evolve architecture through debate and discussions. We write code to talk...
Meeting culture is that ubiquitous pest that stains corporate life. Middle managers often have their agenda covered with back-to-back meetings like some kind of twisted mosaic. And in these days...
Every company calls itself flexible. It's one of those meaningless buzzwords used to attract talent. Most businesses are extremely rigid in their mindset.
I regularly hear from companies that think starting...
Management worships scaling. More is better. Large teams can churn out more features faster. Strong managers shine in huge hierarchies. Sure, it can be a bit wasteful, but if you...
Software developers constantly make trade-offs. Picking an opinionated framework speeds up delivery, but makes it harder to build non-conventional features. Larger payloads vs multiple requests. Does this project benefit from...
Kanban is where software development starts getting interesting. It shows you a lot of flaws in the organisation.
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What a great question!
Most of what we call Agile is based around optimizing...
Some teams are all about quality. They deliver software without bugs. Since that's their main strength, they'll work hard to improve that. How can we catch defects earlier? How can...
