Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SmartBear blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. Developer news sites, blogs, books, and tutorials tend to speak at length about how developers should collaborate with one another to maximize team effectiveness. The subject of how developers should collaborate with people outside of…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SmartBear blog. Let me ask you something. When you read the title of this post, did you envision it laying out some onerous process for converting gigantic Word documents full of requirements into “user stories” in JIRA? If so, I’ll set your mind at ease…
Let me start this off on an improbable foot by saying I’m not huge on the concept of New Years resolutions, per se. But I do value reflection and improvement. And if just after the winter solstice seems like a good time for it, don’t let me stop you. Finding Feedback Last fall, I began…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SmartBear blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, have a look at the posts by some of the other authors. If you’re anything like me in your programming proclivities, there’s a kind of singular impatience that leaps into your…
This is part 3 of the series about journeyman idealists. You can read part 1 here, and part 2 here. Hiring Ditch Diggers We toil in an industry that loses sight of this basic problem, and no wonder. In a simple scenario like that, we can reason about value. But I’d like to employ an…
