Most of my cynicism toward the corporate world is safely directed into my new book these days, so there’s not a ton of spillage onto the blog. But I’m going to make an exception today and talk about corporate culture. To understand some of the terms I’m about to use, you can buy the book,…
Editorial note: this post was originally written for the Infragistics blog, and you can read the original here. Check it out on their site and read the rest of the stuff there, as well. Imagine that you walk into a company, and take a stroll through the software department. All around you, as far as…
Last week, I gave the Scrum Guide a fresh read. I did this for the simple purpose of making sure I was remembering the rules of the game correctly, and not just having conversations based on echoes of memories. It turns out that my understanding and recollection had not drifted very far, which was good news….
The ongoing kerfuffle over the “No Estimates” movement is surreal to me. So before I get to prediction markets for software estimates, I’ll discuss the surreal a bit. Instead of attempting to describe it, which, I can only imagine, would be meta-surreal, I’ll make use of an allegory of sorts. No Wedding Estimates Imagine that wedding…
For many years, I associated the concept of “making the complex simple” with teaching. And that’s certainly not wrong. We’re in an industry filled with complexity, both essential and accidental. To survive in this industry requires understanding essential complexity and eliminating accidental complexity, and novices struggle with this. As developers become self-sufficient, they figure out…
