Reading time ~ 4 minutes Back in December I moved to a new team. After 18 months on DevOps and email marketing projects I’m back to managing commercial product development. After a week of getting up to speed on the product and project (it was … Continue reading
Reading time ~ 2 minutes As promised in my last installment on oubliettes… Your team might not be fully ready for the merciless refactoring encouraged by some agile approaches but this will help you stay heading in the right direction whilst keeping the delivery vs … Continue reading
Reading time ~ 3 minutes Every product team I’ve ever worked in had a bug blitz at some point and often one every year or two. There’s no arguing that a decent bug blitz is a powerful way of getting the numbers down and clearing … Continue reading
Reading time ~ 4 minutes Following my previous articles on topping and debt prevention, we’ll now focus on the easier parts. How to clear old defects and debt. we’ll cover 4 simple strategies; 2 for defects and 2 for debt. (there are paired similarities across these). For defects, we’ll focus … Continue reading
Reading time ~ 2 minutes This is a partial re-post of Escaping the Oubliette (Part 1). I’ve split the article into smaller readable components. Great, I’ve got my incoming defect strategy nailed, Now how do I prevent defects and debt in new code? In 5 … Continue reading
Reading time ~ 2 minutes As promised, how to Escape The Oubliette… So here you are, part of a team at the bottom of the defect & debt pit. What now? The simple fact is, there’s no one answer but there are a selection of tools … Continue reading
Reading time ~ 2 minutes An oubliette is a particularly unpleasant dungeon characterized by a well-like opening. During medievil times these were used “to forget” (oublier -in French) about “unwanted guests”. Imagine how you’d feel stuck at the bottom of an oubliette? It’s probably one of the … Continue reading
Reading time ~ 5 minutes If you’ve been reading my posts for a long while, you might remember this curve in relation to fixing bugs. Today I’m resurrecting it for other reasons. First of all I’ll admit I used to be a bit of an estimation geek. … Continue reading
Reading time ~ 5 minutes 5 months since my last post. What’s been happening? Lots! A recent entertaining high point was this photo of Alberto Brandolini‘s (@ziobrando on twitter) lightning talk at XP2014 going viral. It’s still doing the rounds on twitter 2 weeks later so … Continue reading
Reading time ~ 3 minutes Things have been rather busy over the last couple of months. I’ve joined a new division at my current company and have the basis for another dozen articles slowly developing but that’s just the start. I have some really exciting … Continue reading