I’ve gotten some questions about the idea of what we do being scientific or not, and that raises some interesting discussion points. This is a “You Asked for It” post, and in this one, I’m just going to dive right into the reader question. Don’t bury the lead, as it were. Having attended many workshops on…
A while ago, I released a course on Pluralsight entitled, “Making the Business Case for Best Practices.” There was an element of tongue-in-cheek to the title, which might not necessarily have been the best idea in a medium where my profitability is tied to maximizing the attractiveness of the title. But, life is more fun…
One of the peculiar ironies that I’ve discovered by watching the way a lot of different software shops work is that the most intense moments of exuberance about software seem to occur in places where software development happens at glacial speeds. If you walk into an agile shop or a startup or some kind of…
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…
I’ve done a little bit of work lately on a utility that reads from log files that are generated over the course of a month. Probably about 98% of the time, users would only be interested in this month’s file and last month’s file. How should I handle this? At different points in my career,…
