Working with Agile

Using story points and velocity have been practices for Agile processes for some time now. Velocity is observed as: (A) velocity = story po...

Are code reviews the best way of building in code quality? Although good practice, code reviews do not assure quality, instead it inspects i...

I came across an interesting observation in a book I have been reading lately [1] . Alan Shalloway wrote "imagine having completed a so...

Software developers have enjoyed the benefits of Test Driven Development for a long time now. System Operations professionals have not yet b...

I share Michael Cohn's principle: component teams are not good and that they should be avoided [1] . One way I've been considering l...

The product owner has a lot of responsibilities; one of them is to address 3 out of the 5 generally cited levels of planning. He or she is r...

For years I insisted in automated unit tests with a naive assumption that if you take care of the pennies, the dollars will be taken care of...