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In a previous article, I wrote about the perils of software project planning using man hours and how story points solve the issue. More about it can be read here:
In this article, I’ll be describing the difficulty of moving from hour estimates to story points.
Understanding What Story Points Are and Are Not
Story points are an…
Scrumfall [skruhm-fawl] noun
1. a mixture of scrum and waterfall software development
2. the speed of agile software development being chained down with waterfall software development
When I became the leader of a development team, the company I was working for used a mixture of waterfall software development and Scrum…
Software teams are moving too fast. Is there a such thing? Yes! Unless there is unlimited resources in respect to man power and money, software development is a balancing act between speed and quality. Focusing too much on speed will lower the quality of the product, but focusing too much…
Comments is such a controversial topic in code. It’s a debate that is almost as bad as spaces versus tabs. There is one major camp that says that code should be written to be clear and easy to understand without comments. The other camp is comments are to help the…
What does “error: W1023" mean? Opaque generic error messages doesn’t help anyone. We’re in the software age where no one reads the documentation so it’s bizarre to expect someone to look up an error code. When was the last time you looked up a phone number in a phone book?
Error Messages
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Auth is a service layer that does authentication to identify if the user is who they claim to be and does authorization to check if the user has permission to access the specified REST API. The most common form of authentication is using a username and password, but it is…
After house hunting for 9 weeks, it’s clear that the San Francisco Bay Area is a difficult market to buy a single family house for a first time homebuyer. House prices are driven upward due to scarcity of the supply and high demand for houses. House sales are completed in…
The best way to recognize a disastrous sprint before it starts is by looking at the sprint goals. A successful sprint depends on many factors, but there are telltale signs that a sprint has a high risk of failure. …
Ten years ago, I graduated from college and landed my first job as a software development intern at a late-stage startup. Little did I know, I would stay for close to eight years and become an engineering director. However, it was time for me to leave my little pond and…
