My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels

A story from my Clean Code class. The class exercises revolves around different aspects of the game Tic-Tac-Toe. I like…

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Getting to Working Software: Code Reviews – Benefits

Last time we talked about the different mechanisms and practices we put in place in order to get us to…

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Getting to Working Software – Introduction

“Working software” – How is it made? Here’s the secret sauce – Working software is really about the people who…

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You’re Doing It Wrong: Deadlines

We know that deadlines drive behavior. That’s why in scrum, and other agile methodologies, we timebox the development with those…

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What Makes a Great Tester?

I was recently a judge at ISTC, the Israeli Testing Cup finals. So how does one judge testing? What makes some…

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Seeing Is Believing

Recently, I’ve done a management workshop on TDD. The audience was developmenet managers and team leads. Most of them did…

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Agile introduction to DevOps – Ship ahoy!

So we now have tested software, yippee! Which means nothing if we don’t get it to actual customers, so let’s…

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Agile introduction to DevOps – The Environmentalists

Last time, we’ve looked at how “regular” development practices have made sure that things worked at the development team level. It’s…

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An agile introduction to DevOps – Working software

The agile manifesto says we value working software. What is working software anyway? We can talk about software working in…

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