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Software development teams that aim to be more “Agile” often pick and choose the pieces of an agile methodology that suit them. For some reason standup is usually picked first, way before addressing their waterfall ways. I guess it’s because it’s hard to do “retrospective” but easy to...
Meetings are crucial to healthy team communication. But they’re also opportunities for waste, occasionally dull, and always expensive. Every team is different, but continuing the theme of “Convention over configuration for process”, I’ve found the following structure keeps meetings to...
As developers, we create, update, and delete files all day long. Managing files from the command-line is one of the first skills we learned. However, constantly switching from your editor to the command-line to execute a simple file command, a command you’ve probably executed thousand...
The year is 2005. I’m one year out of school, and a year into a job doing PHP web development at a small development firm in Dallas. A co-worker tells me jokingly about extreme programming. He laughs about the absurdity of pair programming and writing tests. Another developer goes rog...
Juan Camilo Bernal / Shutterstock.com The Obama 2012 campaign has been hailed as the most tech-savvy and data-driven to date, a sophisticated operation led by CTO Harper Reed. Reed had no problem finding developers eager to join the campaign — the challenge was finding people up for t...
Tight feedback loops are one of the things that Pivotal values. We place priority on CI and small stories. This makes it easier to work on master – it’s not a big deal if it is accidentally broken, it’ll be easily fixed or reverted. In my experience, we still do use topic branches whe...
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Lunchtime Drawtime happens Fridays at lunch in the NYC office, where a handful of folks get together and perform some acts of creation. Sometime we have prompts; today’s was
