Clean Your Desk and Define New Year Improvements

It is Christmas time. Clean your desk and the content of your workstation. Upgrade your tools and your development environment to the actual version.

It is time to add automated build pipelines, TDD, ATDD, and Docker to your toolbox. Embrace agile approaches.

Work focused and avoid overtime. Prioritize outcomes instead of outputs. Enjoy family life, practice sport, and pursue continuous training.

Why Use Current Software Components?

Often teams discuss if their product should upgrade to the current version of used components, development tools and programming languages.

I have a strong opinion about upgrades. You should always use the current version of all components included in your product. The only discussion is the timely when and never the if. Be realist, if your product is successful, you have to upgrade before the components are obsolete.  Otherwise your product will become a geriatric solution.

Below I show you arguments why you should always update all components in a timely fashion.