Seven Strategies for Building Smaller
Big tasks are hard to work on. When we break a big task down into smaller tasks they become much more manageable. Suddenly, insurmountably large tasks become manageable as a series of smaller tasks, each of which is easily achievable on their own. Building smaller simplifies tasks making them easier to define, create, and verify. …
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Read MoreSeven Strategies for Vanquishing Waterfall
What makes a software development project Waterfall and what makes it Agile? Different people answer this question differently. For a lot of teams, Agile is having a daily stand-up meeting and working in two-week sprints. For other teams, Agile is doing all of the practices in Scrum, Lean, and XP. Which is right? I say …
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Read MoreSeven Strategies for Fostering Innovation
True innovation means pioneering into territory no one has ever been in order to discover something new. Not everyone can do this but fortunately for the rest of us some can. Still, it can be helpful to find ways of supporting innovation. Here are seven strategies for fostering innovation. 1. Believe it’s possible There’s a …
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Read MoreSeven Strategies for Growing as a Software Developer
People end up as software developers from a variety of backgrounds. Regardless of how we became software developers, if we want to stay on the leading edge of the industry we must be constantly learning and growing as developers. Here are seven strategies for growing as a software developer. 1. Do your own project Having …
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