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: Man Hour Don’t Work in Software Development TL;DR: Estimating things in man hours do not work in software development. There are better methologies such as Agile…buisteven.medium.com In this article, I’ll be describing the difficulty of moving from hour estimates to story points.

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…

Taking a small pause to thank everyone who has followed me. My Reason For Writing Hello! I started writing on Medium to get thoughts and ideas out of my head. It turns out that writing is quite therapeutic as it brought me some calm to sit down to organize my thoughts and plans. Over…

HashiConf Global, which took place on October 5th and 6th, showcased their many infrastructure products and their future roadmaps. The free virtual sessions can be found on https://live.hashiconf.com/on-demand Zero Trust Security Recently, businesses have been focusing on zero trust security for their networks to harden against attackers gaining access through ways such as…

“My docker container is using 80+ GB of disk space! My system is out of disk space! Help!” -a cry for help by someone experiencing a run away container eating up disk space. A common issue with using docker is the /var/lib/docker/overlay2 folder may take up gigabytes of space which…

Software bugs are handled by all levels of an engineering department in some shape or form. The goal of dealing with software bugs is not reaching zero bugs as that’s not realistic and causes unneeded stress on the engineering team. …

Being a software developer who designs systems and workflows that focuses on a good customer experience, I had the joy of experiencing a system that was poorly designed and I wanted to dissect this experience to identify the problem areas and why it causes a bad experience. The Experience AT&T schedules a…

Time sure flies! A decade ago, I was fresh out of college and was very lucky to have a software development internship. I stayed at my first job and grew into an engineering director while the tech world changed from desktop to cloud applications. Along the way, I made mistakes…

“Don’t reinvent in the wheel” is a common phrase said throughout life. The same principal applies to software development. Before writing a large amount of code, has someone already solve your issue? Yes? Let’s use the module or library instead of building one. Wait! …