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Agile
Increasing team sizes: Boredom
Although the majority of the teams that I’ve worked on over the past few years have been relatively small in…
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Software Development
Coding: Is there a name for everything?
A month ago I wrote a post describing an approach my team has been taking to avoid premature abstractions whereby…
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Software Development
Just Observe
One of the most common instincts of a developer when starting on a new team is to look at the…
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Software Development
Testing: Trying not to overdo it
The design of the code which contains the main logic of the application that I’m currently working on looks a…
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Agile
Coding: Spike Driven Development
While reading Dan North’s second post about software craftsmanship I was able to resonate quite a lot with a point…
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Software Development
Looking for the seam
During December/early January we spent some time analysing an existing system which we were looking to rewrite and our approach…
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Software Development
Tech Leads & The Progress Principle
I’ve been reading The Progress Principle on and off for the last couple of months and one of my favourite…
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Software Development
The Lean Startup: Book Review
I’d heard about The Lean Startup for a long time before I actually read it, mainly from following the ‘Startup…
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