Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
Every so often when I'm talking about the relative merits of Scrum or Kanban, or Agile software development in general, I find myself brought back to the few books I've read on the subject which really resonated with me and gave me plenty of interesting ideas for what to try, when faced with workflow difficulties. In the last five years, I've worked on or with at least ten different teams - either…
I won't descend into hyperbole and say you should run, shrieking and naked into the dark night, when you hear these words. But, it's worth pondering what exactly it means. I think I've (over)used this phrase myself plenty over the years and right now find myself examining why so many people find themselves needing to invent their own version of well accepted software workflow methodologies.
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I had a meeting this week where among other things we talked about our teams and team members and how things were doing, generally, in the sense of team health. Oh yeah, since I haven't explicitly called it out on this blog, for the last 9 months I've been an engineering manager and since the beginning of the year took on a second team. So I've got two teams of developers to manage currently.
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It has been a while since my last blog post; certainly not because I wanted to write less but I've just been trying to learn so damn much recently it hasn't left much time for anything else. Whether or not I've actually learned anything is yet to be seen. This leads me to a subject which I am still struggling with - Pair Programming.
Not that I don't "get it", "understand it", or "enjoy it" - I…