“Don’t worry. We’re not a staff aug firm or anything like that.” Years before this would matter to me, I remember some recruiter saying this to me on the phone. I didn’t know what “staff aug” meant, so I remember looking it up afterward. I won’t force you to do that, though. Staff Augmentation: a…
Since I boasted about this on Twitter, I have to follow through. I’m going to do “Developer Hegemony Week” on my blog, leading up to the book launch on May 2nd. (I suppose this makes Developer Hegemony Week a misnomer of sorts, since we’re talking about 9 days of posts.) I can think of no…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the NDepend blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, download NDepend and give it a try — see if your code lies in the Zone of Pain. It amazes me that, in 2016, I still hear the occasional story of…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the LogEntries blog. I would like to clarify something immediately with this post. Its title does not contain the number 7, nor does it talk about effectiveness. That was intentional. I have no interest in trying to piggy-back on Stephen Covey’s book title to earn clicks, which would make…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the Telerik blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, have a look around at their extensive product offering. In a whitepaper I wrote recently, I talked about two hypothetical organizations. I used them to offer a study in hyperbolic contrast….
