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Nonsense We Put up With: Complexity, Agile Gone Wrong and Enterprise Decision Making

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.Recently, I've come across a few articles that - although about ostensibly different subjects - share a common theme: When trying to create business value through software and devising the structures required to do so we all too often put up with wasteful processes, politics and toxic behaviour patterns that not only do not contribute to our goal but are downright detrimental. First, there's this transcript of a talk Martin Fowler gave at Agile ... Read more

‘Agile’ isn’t a new way of doing software development, it’s the normal way

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.Recently, during a conversation on software development "methodologies" (just the word "methodology" makes me cringe because it's a needlessly convoluted and complicated notion) one of the participants said something along the lines of "'Agile' isn't for everyone. Most people just aren't cut out for doing software development that way.". I strongly contest that notion. 'Agile' has become some bullshit bingo term that's slung around in order to perpetuate precisely those misconceptions the Agile Manifesto ... Read more

Daily Standup Meetings: Anti-patterns And What to Do About Them

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.Daily standup meetings are a mainstay of agile software development methods, such as XP, Kanban (which used to be an inventory control system having originated at Toyota) and Scrum, of course. Given that agile development methods are by far the most dominant ones in the software industry today, it should come as no surprise that daily standup meetings are a common feature of software development processes these days. These meetings basically serve the purpose of ... Read more

Advice On Improving JavaScript Test Speed (by Shyp Engineering)

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.On their blog engineers of logistics service Shyp (defunct) talk about how they improved the turn-around times of their JavaScript test suite by an order of magnitude of 3 (i.e. 1000x), which is no small achievement. In a modern software development process continuous integration and continuous deployment play a vital role. These ensure that your software always is in an deliverable, tested state and ideally is deployed to production systems in a timely manner ... Read more