Software development quotes
I know plenty of teams that do all the right research activities, but these activities don’t influence their product decisions. They set out to build the same solutions they intended to build before they did their research activities.
Most of the complaints you hear about monolithic architecture can be traced directly to poor and/or accidental design. if you leverage similar design practices to create a distributed system, no amount of observability will save you.
Too many developers have an unrealistic view of the relationship between the quality of their software and the time and cost of creating it. The received wisdom is that more reliable software takes longer to write.
Traditional testers often don’t like agile because without detailed specification documents they are suddenly unable to do their jobs. This is because they consider their job being to compare the working system to the specification, and report where there are discrepancies. If you think about this for a second, the …
The naive view of agile software development is that everyone just dives in and starts writing code without spending any time at the beginning working out what to do.
We often hear people say “We’re agile, we don’t need a plan” or even worse “We can’t plan”. This is just not true. Release Planning in agile is as important as it is in traditional projects, the only difference is there are a few techniques that help make sure the …
