I am a twenty year veteran of the Software Engineering industry. Come along as I share various bits and baubles that I pick up on my travels through software, security, DevOps, and IT culture.
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Work Stream
I’ve alluded to “THE Plan” before. I hope it’s clear at this point what level of contempt I have for this dinosaur of BDUF (big design up front) and command and control style IT. Today I want to talk about what I perceive as being better: Work Stream, or Flow. The first major characteristic of …
Fauxgile is Self-Deception
I talk to a lot of developers, and I read a lot about teams and teamwork on the Internet. I absorb a lot of information about “projects” and I have to say that there’s a lot of people out there who are deceiving themselves: “We are an Agile/Scrum shop; we have daily stand-ups, two week …
There is No Place in IT for Pretenders Who Don’t Code
I know that the title of this post is click-baity and inflammatory. Before you go all Gaston and LeFou on me, put down your implements of late-night gardening, and let me clarify… IT is at its very best, the Shangri-La, when IT harnesses the broad world of technology to help the business do business better; …
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