2017-12-10 The Short Term Benefits of Unit Tests Unit tests are often associated as something that benefits a software project in the long term. However, there are some short term benefits as well. Read more...
2017-11-25 Taking On Technical Debt Technical debt is often described as a negative. However, like financial debt, it is only out of control technical debt that is a problem. How can technical debt be taken in a controlled manner? Read more...
2017-11-05 Story Points and Time It is often said that story points should not be associated with time. There is an inherent logical flaw with that, but there is value in having a unit of time that people don’t treat as a unit of time. Read more...
2017-10-22 Thoughts On Front End Architecture I really appreciate content pages that say what a product actually does instead of generic marketing content. Demos do this quite well, but getting a demo app to have high fidelity with a production app can be challenging. This is how I tackled that problem. Read more...
2017-10-08 Letting Go of the Edge Cases While writing blog posts and writing software are very different activities, I often find a lot of similarities. One of those is the importance of thinking about edge cases... and stratgically ignoring some of them. Read more...