Happy Friday, all. A while back, I announced some changes to the blog, including a partnership with Infragistics, who sponsors me. Part of my arrangement with them and with a few other outfits (stay tuned for those announcements) is that I now write blog posts for them. Between writing posts for this blog, writing posts…
I’ve found that as the timeline of my life becomes longer, my capacity for surprise at my situation diminishes. And so my recent combination of types of work and engagements, rather than being strange in any way to me, is simply ammo for genuineness when I offer up the cliche, “variety is the spice of…
Unless my memory and a quick search of my blog are both mistaken, I’ve never tackled the controversial concept of a “10x developer.” For those who aren’t aware, this is the idea that some programmers are order(s) of magnitude more productive than others, with the exact figure varying. I believe that studies of varying statistical…
Not too long ago, on one of my Chess TDD posts, someone commented asking me to define technical debt because I had tossed the term out while narrating a video in that series. I’ll speak to it a bit because it’s an extremely elegant metaphor, particularly in the context of clarifying things to business stakeholders….
I was asked recently in a comment what I thought about the “No Estimates Movement.” In the interests of full disclosure, what I thought was, “I kinda remember that hashtag.” Well, almost. Coincidentally, when the comment was written to my blog, I had just recently seen a friend reading this post and had read part…
