The World is a Better Place and We Must Tackle Climate Change

The world has really improved in a lot of areas.

Stop whining we are doomed.  And yes we must act strong and fast to tackle the climate change disaster. 

But do not forget how much the world bettered the last centuries.

We are not doomed, we must solve the next challenges instead of just complaining and doing nothing.

Ask yourself if you need a car. Travel with train instead of flying. Schedule a video conference instead of a business trip. Each step reduces your carbon footprint. Millions of persons taking similar steps will be a huge improvement. Reduce your plastic and paper usage. Just do it!

Agile Code is Clean Code!

You are applying the agile, lean approach to your software product development. Your teams use Scrum or Kanban to deliver running software every two weeks.

To create an agile architecture you must write agile worthy code. And agile code is always clean code.

Start early, do it continuously and soon your code will be clean, legible and free of defects.

Agile Architecture Principles

You are applying the agile, lean approach to your software product development. Your teams use Scrum or Kanban to deliver running software every two weeks. The product market introduction is a success and you will successfully sell the solution for the next ten years.

How shall you define the software architecture of your product and insure a long living and high quality solution? The experts tell you the design is emergent, what does it means?

Code Scene as Crime Scene

You have a successful product and happy users. Slowly the cost adding new features is creeping up and product margins are shrinking. Which crimes did put us in this dreaded situation?

How can you analyze the history of your product's source code?

How can you explore the social dimension of your product development? How can you find good approaches to increase time to market and improve development costs?

Why I still love to use a MacBookPro and MacOS in 2019

As a young developer I loved Linux, compiled new kernels during evening sessions and struggled days to have the correct drivers for the graphic card and communication components of my notebook. 

I grew older and decided to enjoy my weekends, family and outdoor activities.

And surely I shall have no virus, trojan and other evils on my workstation. So I went to MacOS and Apple notebooks without regrets.

You Need an Engineering Culture

Agile approaches are not enough, You need a strong engineering culture to achieve quality and lasting success.

Often coaches and Scrum masters tinker with the processes and invest effort and blood to improve the ceremonies and the company structure.

But at the end of the day the success of your product is defined by its adequacy to customers' needs and its overall quality. You need a solid and professional engineering culture to produce high quality products and release them at high rate. If not you just release a new set of defects to your paying customers.

How do you establish and nurture a professional and effective engineering culture?

How Healthy is Your Product? - Company Culture Check

You are developing your product using agile and lean approaches. 

How can you check your approach and distill improvements? A health check of your product and your development approach is certainly a good solution.

This post is the fourth and last of a set of articles identifying health checks with different focus. We will identify strengths, potential weaknesses and hopefully find room for improvement.

What is your company culture and how does it focus collaborators to delight your customers.