Background Some professional development friends and I started an Agile for Defense Meetup last year in the Omaha NE area: meetup.com/Agile-for-Defense. This meetup has been very successful and we started the idea of Agile Happy Hours. These have been going great and I wanted to share how we have been conducting them and the success […]
Category: Agile
I am now a Certified Scrum Professional
I have just passed the Certified Scrum Professional 150 question exam. I have transformed a handful of teams to scrum over the past 2 years now. I have been reading plenty over those 2 years to accomplish this, however I read just as much this past month to ensure passing the exam. Here are some […]
We are Software Gardeners: Developers Plan to Engineer but Master Gardening
Software Engineer is what reads well on the resume but Software Gardener reads well to the experienced. The analogy that building software is more like gardening vs engineering has been around for a while. You can find other articles with very good descriptions of the analogy. In short: “In engineering, the final product is defined […]
Code Kata Reporting Tool
Code Katas are so useful we wanted to analyze, share, and relive the infamous experience. Code katas are a core training practice for software development that I believe heavily in. To read more about what they are and a list of good ones to practice see my Dojo Code Katas post. Here I want to […]
Dojo Code Katas
Code Katas are a professional training practice developers use to stay in shape when it comes to programming, problem solving, tool utilization and much much more. A great definition and background can be found at codekata.pragprog.com. That link has a good list of Code Katas but has not been updated in a long time. It […]
Clean Coder – Book Notes and Thoughts
The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers is a new book on developer professionalism from the legend Bob Martin and it doesn’t disappoint. I have read many books written by Robert (Bob) Martin or from his series. I have been very impressed with the classics and was more than ecstatic when I […]