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Iterations Mean Rapid Feedback — Agile Heretic Episode Five

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/08

Though sprints help maintaining some rhythm, don’t let them dumb you down:

Have you ever run for real, then run on a treadmill? Running for real means that you have a pace, hopefully sustainable, and off you go. If…

Source: [WayBack] Iterations Mean Rapid Feedback — Agile Heretic Episode Five

Via: [WayBack] Iterative development does not mean timeboxed or repetitive development. – Marjan Venema – Google+ (who is a great coach)

Which reminded me I should order and read [WayBack] Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life: Jim Benson, Tonianne DeMaria Barry: 9781453802267: Amazon.com: Books

–jeroen

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Is the era of management over? | World Economic Forum

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/12

Hopefully the next few years will finally show what the incremental software development and evolutionary management has been trying to advocate since the late 1950s and 1970s: hierarchies do not work and purpose works better for the vast majority than being in a triangle.

The first slide below is from Thoughtworks who has been doing these changes for several decades now.

Traditional hierarchies are giving way to more open and creative workplace cultures.

[WayBack] Is the era of management over? | World Economic Forum

That’s the only way to cope with complexity as talent dilutes in growing organisations.

Via:

–jeroen

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jessie frazelle on Twitter: “Hire the people who will automate themselves out of a job, then just keep giving them jobs.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/31

This is what DevOps is all about: [WayBack] jessie frazelle on Twitter: “Hire the people who will automate themselves out of a job, then just keep giving them jobs.”

I had seen the tweet before, but forgot to save it. Jonas Bandi reminded me of it at [WayBack] Weekend Reader: End of Year Edition – reality-loop.

Jessie is doing great work. For instance, she developed and published contained.af, and nobody captured the flag yet: [WayBack] jessie frazelle on Twitter: «A year ago I made contained.af and it’s launched over 128,000 containers & no one has retrieved the flag».

The game runs in a container, gives you console access and has a bunch of questions. Still need to dig deeper in it, as it is a fascinating set-up. If you like to try it:

Wishing you a year where nobody captures your flags (:

–jeroen

via [WayBack] I just published my “Weekend Reader: End of Year Edition” – Jonas Bandi – Google+

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Agiles Coaching by Judith Andresen [Leanpub PDF/iPad/Kindle]

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/01

Any good English books similar to the German [WayBack] Agiles Coaching by Judith Andresen [Leanpub PDF/iPad/Kindle]?

Although my German reading is quite OK, it’s not OK enough to fully use this book.

–jeroen

via:

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The Software Development Process – Science, Engineering, Art, or Craft? – CodeProject

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/18

On the long-read list: [WayBack] The Software Development Process – Science, Engineering, Art, or Craft? – CodeProject

 

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some links on git and code reviews

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/02

A few links I collected:

–jeroen

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Versioning common sense (major.minor.patch) has a name: Semantic Versioning 2.0.0

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/17

I just discovered the versioning common sense I’ve used for decades actually has a name. It’s even a “standard”!

Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 Summary

Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:

  1. MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes,
  2. MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner, and
  3. PATCH version when you make backwards-compatible bug fixes.

Additional labels for pre-release and build metadata are available as extensions to the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format.

I discovered it via:

betty – Friendly English-like interface for your command line. Don’t remember a command? Ask Betty.

Source: pickhardt/betty

–jeroen

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Definition of Done – Programmer’s Life : Programmer’s Life

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/02

“It works on my machine.” is just the start of  reaching DoD (:

Definition of Done Definition of Done

–jeroen

Source: Definition of Done – Programmer’s Life : Programmer’s Life

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Testing and static methods don’t go well together

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/16

A few links as, in code I’ve inherited, I see way too many static methods hindering testing:

–jeroen

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on code quality: Can we automate everything? | CommitStrip – Blog relating the daily life of web agencies developers

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/03

Repeated because it is the most important aspect of software development.

automating everything

automating everything

–jeroen

via: Can we automate everything? | CommitStrip – Blog relating the daily life of web agencies developers.

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