Iteration Zero - the first iteration
There has been quite a lot of commentary on various social media channels about agile ceremonies and the traps that they often pose to enterprises. if not taken in the context of the value that they …
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Technical Health over Technical Debt
Ward Cunningham is credited with the first use of the team Complexity as Debt or Technical Debt (YouTube video) as a metaphor poor software implementation. For a software application or system …
Orchestration and Choreography are often discussed as design options for event driven systems. Some use the term interchangeably while others feel that the two are very distinct. I am in the later …
Risk is typically expressed as a function of likelihood and severity or impact. Probability is an important factor but this article is about understanding the potential impact of change on a …
Templated styles
While developing web applications I have often needed to change the style of one or more elements based on the state of the data model used by the application. I have an inherent aversion to …
Team Distribution Models and Conways Law
If Conway’s law applies the how we set up and organise teams should either be aligned to the architecture of the applicaiton or system being developed or application/system architecture will shift to …
Campaign for better IO
Over the last 30 years I have used a lot of computers ranging from teletypes to laptops. I have also visited a lot of offices and seen the standard keyboards that people are using on a daily basis. …
Metrics based Refactoring for cleaner code
Refactoring is a key practice to improved code hygiene. Making refactoring part of your next project is one thing but if you have just joined a team or project with a significant amount of debt how do …
AgileDC - Introduction to Continuous Delivery
Yesterday I presented a talk entitled Introduction to Continuous Delivery at AgileDC. The audience was great and the room packed which is always a recipe for success. I really enjoyed talking about …
Agile DC
I am really syched about talking at AgileDC tomorrow. The topic of my talk is an Introduction to Continuous Delivery