Most of the advice on meetings concerns how to run them. But what about when you’re attending the meeting rather than running it, and the meeting is endless or boring? Certainly, it can help to stay ...

Behavior-driven development (BDD) and keywords are both widely used techniques to facilitate automated testing. The approaches are similar in that tests can be written in a business-readable, ...

This is the age of speed dating, speed networking, speed yoga, and, yes, even speed meditation. It’s a time of rush-rush-rush in the attempt to do more, sooner, faster. But there doesn’t seem to be a ...

Everybody knows that the later you find defects, the more expensive they are to fix. Everybody knows that, right? Well, back in 1976, a software engineer named Barry Boehm said defects are more ...

A set of vertices with each vertex having zero or more labels and zero or more properties/attributes. A set of edges with each edge being directed from one vertex to another vertex. Each edge has zero ...

Occasionally, I hear someone maintain that you can’t have too much communication. I disagree. In matters of communication, more is not necessarily better. Sure, too little communication can result in ...

A transition to agile can be confusing for everyone in the organization. Agile changes many roles, as it works in a much different way from traditional software development processes. Some might argue ...

Given all that's going on in the world, let alone in your work and personal life, you may find it difficult not to take things seriously. When you've got way too much to do and not nearly enough ...

In the Linux operating system, unlike with virtual machines, each Docker container does not use a complete operating system kernel; multiple Docker containers can share the same one. One of the ...

It seems to defy all logic, but the best programmers have two usually undesirable traits: They’re lazy and dumb. That’s the point of a classic post by web developer and blogger Philipp Lenssen that I ...

Collaboration is a key part of how agile teams work. Quite often, to work effectively to meet commitments in a self-organizing, cross-functional team, you need to be creative as well. While teams can ...

If you deal with legacy code you’ve likely found yourself struggling to debug and fix a mysterious, intermittent problem. Along the way you may have discovered some code that didn’t quite make sense.