What really are demos? D – Delivered E – Excitement M – Milestone O – Offering That’s right, it’s a point in time where a software team gets to Deliver a beautiful piece of software that they are so Excited to be working on as it symbolizes a huge Milestone in their delivery plan, Offering it up to their stakeholders and team to offer feedback and guidance on as to how they should proceed with the…
Oh I loathe this term – the Software Factory – where visions of a funnel that take in software requirements into a building where idle developers sit by twiddling their thumbs waiting for their next task to be assigned to them so that they work to deliver a piece of software. Factory not moving fast enough? Add more developers, the more we add, the faster it should go. Except Software Delivery is not a factory and…
Yesterday. No seriously, this is an answer that is given to many a software developer during their career. If you have not heard it yet, you will, if you have heard it, well, at some point you will hear it again. What type of work is due yesterday? Not easy work, really hard stuff, work that requires looking at different designs, potentially a number of marker board sessions and can include you trying one idea, failing…
The yearly conference is a welcome addition to any developer’s planned events for the year. It’s an opportunity to meet with colleagues around the world, meet new friends, perhaps meet with customers and of course, to relax and learn some new tricks of the trade. Boiled down to two words: Collaboration and Learning. This was 5 years ago, now there is a third component to Developer Conferences – “Exclusivity”. Aaah yes, now some (not all) conferences are…
Remember when you were a kid, starting to collect to comic books at issue #373 of your favourite Superhero? What went through your mind? What was the first thing? That before issue #374 and beyond you would try to collect as many back issues as possible to understand everything about your favourite character, every back story and side romance, every change in powers and team make-up all so you could have the complete picture. Everyone…