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  • Rather early in my career as a programmer I learned a few rather important characteristics about software development requirements as well as how [...]

    Precise or accurate – or, How to miss a goal

    December 21, 2009
  • It’s Monday, the last day of the iteration. It’s time to build, package and release the next version of LogLady, the best tool known [...]

    The Human Batch Script

    July 2, 2009
  • It’s time to do something about all these bugs. The dev-team keeps shipping bugs every other month – Manny thought to himself. He had [...]

    Bug Squash – Another Software Team Anti Pattern

    May 13, 2009
  • Me and my colleagues had all jumped in the XP-water. Iterations, planning game, TDD and more. Things was running along quite nicely and I [...]

    My Pair Programming Journey (pt. 2)

    May 9, 2009
  • “Pair programming is a software development technique in which two programmers work together at one keyboard” – Wikipedia, April 2009. [...]

    My pair programming journey (pt. 1)

    April 20, 2009
  • Contracts are shaping the way we work. Even more so if you are working as a contractor. Surprise?! Is this why we are spending more and more time [...]

    Contracts and initial requirements – Impediments pt. 3

    April 1, 2009
  • No matter how you decide to develop software, the less you develop the cheaper it is. So, before you start a new project or decide to invest in [...]

    Why, oh why? – Impediments pt. 1

    March 20, 2009
  • The hype around Scrum has lead people to think that Scrum equals Agile Software Development. And vice versa. I’m rather happy about that. [...]

    What about ScrumAnd

    March 17, 2009
  • Relative advantages Imagine this. You are running a company in the travel business. Customers contact you to buy a trip from A to B. Typically [...]

    Are you outsourcing your waste?

    February 20, 2009
  • What is technical debt? “[Technical Debt is] everything that stops you from effectively adding new features to your software product”. That [...]

    Technical Debt. Whys, hows and whens.

    February 19, 2009

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