Bad Things Happen to Good Code

We need to understand what happens to code over time and why, and what a healthy, long-lived code base looks…

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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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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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How to Cheat at Application Security

Developers need to know a lot in order to build secure applications. Some of this is good software engineering and…

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Devops and Maintenance go together like Apple Pie and Ice Cream

One of the things I like about devops is that it takes on important but neglected problems in the full…

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Contracting in Agile – You try it

One of the key principles in Agile development is “Customer collaboration over contract negotiation” Unfortunately, that means that if you’re…

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What’s better – Big Fat Tests or Little Tests?

Like most startups, we built a lot of prototypes and wrote and threw out a lot of code as we…

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Does the PMI-ACP set the bar high enough on Risk Management?

I’m trying to understand the PMI’s new certification for Agile Certified Practitioners, and what value the PMI brings to managing…

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What can you get out of Kanban?

I’ve spent the last year or so learning more about Kanban, how to use it in software development and IT…

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