Cruft is inevitable. Whether you’re working around a bug in Internet Explorer, Heroku or Ruby 1.8, our libraries and applications quickly diverge from the platonic ideal of software. In the short-term, there’s no point in fretting. Rather than an indication of a development process gone awry, the technical debt merely …
In this video, Henrik Kniberg has compressed a one day product ownership course into a 15 minute animated presentation.
On traditional projects, testers tend to join the project after coding has started, or sometimes almost finished. Testers and programmers may not communicate except through the defect tracking system. On agile projects, testing skills are very important but can be applied in different ways. Janet talks about some of the …
For years, one could assume that any development group trying to improve its approach to software was applying some form of Agile Software Development methodology like Scrum. In the last couple of years, Lean Software Development has seen a surge in popularity.
Continuous Delivery is gaining lots of traction right now, blending aspects of the DevOps and Agile movements to help deliver our software more predictably & faster than ever before to our clients. But how do you actually do it? Where should you start? And what tools should you be using? …
Most developers know enough about refactoring to write code that’s pretty good. They create short methods, and classes with one responsibility. They’re also familiar with a good handful of refactorings, and the code smells that motivate them.
