If you could only do one thing to make better software, what would it be?

Good technical practices are what we have to do to make good software – this is the engineering part of…

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Different Ways of Scaling Agile

At this year’s Construx Software Executive Summit one of the problems that we explored was how to scale software development,…

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Don’t Waste Time Writing Perfect Code

A system can last for 5 or 10 or even 20 or more years. But the life of specific lines…

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Can Static Analysis replace Code Reviews?

In my last post, I explained how to do code reviews properly. I recommended taking advantage of static analysis tools…

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Don’t waste time on Code Reviews

Less than half of development teams do code reviews and the other half are probably not getting as much out…

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Feature Toggles are one of the worst kinds of Technical Debt

Feature flags or config flags aka feature toggles aka flippers are an important part of Devops practices like dark launching…

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Devops isn’t killing developers – but it is killing development and developer productivity

Devops isn’t killing developers – at least not any developers that I know. But Devops is killing development, or the…

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Trust instead of Threats

According to Dr. Gary McGraw’s ground breaking work on software security, up to half of security mistakes are made in…

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10 things you can do to as a developer to make your app secure: #10 Design Security In

There’s more to secure design and architecture besides properly implementing Authentication, Access Control and Logging strategies, and choosing (and properly…

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