Without a doubt we have all heard, that pair programming is a good idea for various reasons. Most often those who have had experiences with actually practicing it for a while recommend…
We sw-developers tend to think we have revolutionized the entire field of project mangement with the invention of agile. Never again will we have to deal with tedious project managers who have…
Defining information service infrastructures using AWS Cloudformation can sometimes feel like a double-edged sword. On the one hand it provides us with a high degree of control regarding consistency, on…
In our work we often encounter AWS installations under various accounts. Using the web-based console is straightforward, but for repetitive tasks and more advanced interaction we often rely on Amazons…
As a consultant I am called in to solve specific problems and I would like to start working on the problems at hand as soon as I can. But, very…
When planning a meeting or a workshop I always use the 7 P framework from the Gamestorming book. The framework can be used to plan almost anything, and is great…
After a good discussion with a colleague for the merits of code review I thought I should give some of the reasons I use as to why a development team…
Working as a consulting test manager in my latest project, a new website with 20 local sites, I was planning user acceptance testing which would be done by using all…
I got some positive response about DET that I wrote on my blog and in my CAST session proposal, so I thought I would elaborate a little on where I think this could be going. I will probably cover more hands on aspects in the coming weeks, but I really want to explain a vision I have around it first.
In my current project, I started to involve our main business stakeholders in our test sessions from the start when I got involved. And they have gotten really excited about attending once a week.
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According to this blog entry on Heroku, Clojure becomes the third language officially supported on the Cedar stack, after Ruby and Node.js. They write: - "Clojure combines the expressiveness of…
The Nordic Ruby conference is a really great conference. I think the secret is: it’s small (they set a limit of 150 people which was reached), single track, 15 or…
Have you ever had too much to do? Did you react by working even harder – like the rest of us? At first, the situation seems to improve and everything…
There are loads of reasons for a tester to love DET. Here I present three reasons for a developer to love it.
At Öredev 2009 I first learned about Christopher Averys responsibility process model in a seminar about agile adoption strategies. The speaker, Amr Elssamadisy, emphasized the importance of having team members…
I can't take credit for this statement, since I am only drawing the logical conclusion from a statement said by a man far smarter than I. Donald Knuth wrote in…