by Richard | Feb 8, 2017 | Practical
For a team whose workflow is based on continuous integration – that is, frequent pushes to and pulls from a shared integration branch – it is really important to have a healthy integration branch. A team who want to use this workflow should all buy into exercising a...
by Richard | Feb 8, 2017 | Continuous Improvement, Culture, Introspection, Planning & Estimating
There’s an increasing awareness among software developers of the SOLID principles – that is the Single responsibility, Open/closed, Lyskov substitutability, Interface segregation and Dependency inversion principles. Beyond these another principle that is...
by Richard | Feb 7, 2017 | Practical
The three main ways to control the behavior of an application are code, configuration and data: Code Simply hard-coding can be a very quick way to get something done. This is a valuable approach, especially while prototyping or iterating quickly to get feedback. It is...
by Richard | Feb 7, 2017 | Culture, Introspection, Practical
A team I’ve worked with recently were struggling with a poor delivery effectiveness, which was the result of a few particularly bad decisions compounding. One of the biggest issues was that the team had a lot of automation tests, but no other feedback mechanism....
by Richard | Feb 6, 2017 | Practical
There’s a clichéd expression I like which is “when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail” – the meaning of course is that sometimes when a person only knows one way to solve problems, in their mind every problem can be solved that...
