How many times have you heard a developer say this? This problem is really complex, I’m going into a cave for the next few days to work on it. So they go away for a few days and when they come out – BOOM – problem solved, new features built, product ideas are pouring out the ceiling. Two days in a Cave – no distractions, minimal interruptions, no communications – yielded – progress, delivery, initiative.…

I can’t leave code that won’t build at my desk overnight. Perhaps it’s because I won’t remember what is wrong with it in the morning. Perhaps it’s a worry that my machine will reboot overnight and it will then be even more of a mess. Maybe it’s wanting to have that last sense of “Build Succeeded” to scroll past my screen so I always that small measure of daily accomplishment. Whatever it is, the same…

Everyone. Everyone fills a part of this role, from the customer to the Business Analyst, to the Sales Manager to the Product Owner to the QA Tester to the Developer. Everyone writes the requirements, everyone shapes the outcome, everyone contributes. If only one of those roles takes on the responsibility for writing the requirements than the requirements have not been written, they’ve been assumed and conjectured. Writing requirements isn’t magic, but the results they can yield…

Ask a developer to what extent they comment their code and you’ll learn something very quickly about how they approach their work and their team. Very little comments – whoever comes next can fend for themselves, just as I did. Substantive comments – this was very confusing, I don’t want the next person to have to go through all of that again. Commenting your code serves no purpose today, for you. But for the next…

If a Developer on your team says this, it means the following… I have too much on my plate to really think about this. I am hoping this is not a bug. I don’t know enough about the problem to give you a solid answer. The problem with this phrase, is that the developer means it the context of – I’m not 100% sure, but I think we might be able to do something here…