What do you do when you are trying to get a professional to do a home improvement project for you? Would you just speak to one trades person and then ask when they can start and hope that you can afford the job? Or would you get a few quotes from different tradespeople and then compare them to see which one is the best fit for your budget and timeline? ...
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d hear of an agile management framework of this name - HoneyBadger. What is HoneyBadger? HoneyBadger is an agile management framework. Now that doesn’t make much sense does it? Don’t we already have plenty of agile management frameworks? Let’s start breaking that down a bit Info ...
What is invisible work? Work that is done by someone or a group of people that is not tracked anywhere is invisible work! This could be something that is an interruption to your day, this could be a side project that you are doing with someone else in your organisation, or anything along these lines, that is not covered as part of your daily stand-up or updates. ...
In my current role, I manage a very special team of quality engineers who are responsible for setting standards and best practices for quality assurance across the entire organisation and is also responsible for developing any necessary tooling or frameworks that might help product teams reduce toil. This is not a new problem and hence I was looking for inspiration and lessons to learn from other organisations who have embedded quality at the heart of their software development process. I came across this presentation by two Quality Specialists who also happen to be Atlassian partners. Please go ahead and watch it if you haven’t already. ...
How many times have you as a software engineer worked on a large feature, in an isolated branch that only got merged to the mainline branch when it is time to actually release the feature and then struggled for hours and sometimes days with the merge conflicts, simply because many other changes were contributed to the main branch in the meanwhile? If your answer is many times, then you really might benefit from this. ...
“The Invisible Man.” by Chaotic Good01 is licensed with CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ Keeping people informed Early in my career, I thought writing software is all about the outcome. Delivering something that works. I thought it didn’t matter how it was done. At the end of the sprint if you didn’t have a deliverable, it was a problem. This was true in companies which adopt a waterfall model of development. ...