Goals Principles & Rules Many people come and visit our software development department. In one such visit Mitch Lacey pointed out some items on the walls that...
How do bad practices leave the system? Agile 2018 did something great around feedback this year. All the participating speakers were asked to peer review 2 other sessio...
Mob Programming and Personal Satisfaction Solo Coding vs Mob Programming I had a really awesome question come in and I wanted to work through ideas I have around the topi...
The Hidden Costs of Estimates I get a lot of great questions about #NoEstimates, and do Q&A from time to time but this question in particular I thought deserved...
Software Estimation Paradox Software Estimation Paradox People can estimate well what they have done many times before. Software developers automate what is ...
How much time should we spend on Automation and Refactoring? Recently I was asked "How much effort should we really put into automated tests and refactoring?" For some context her...
Bi-Annual Goal Setting Process Q&A When attending Agile 2017 this year there was a great new track called the Audacious Salon.
Self Organizing, Production Maintenance, and Mob Programming Q&A; Target software team Markus S forwarded questions from his team at Target: Questions for the Hunter Mob(s):
Q&A Emergent Architecture & Mob Programming Recently Nicholas U had a question about emergent architecture that I would like to address in this blog. Here is the question: “Eme...
What are UI Dependencies and how do you Peel them? Q&A In a prior Q&A post I answered a question on our development process and Nicholas U has a follow-up question. In the diagram what ...
Mob Programming, Flat Structure, and Technical Development Q&A I received more questions from Nicholas U in a previous blog and once again his questions are great ones and I would like to answer them a...