Too much of a good thing will often turn out to be a bad thing, harmful even. Take salt, for instance. Food without salt is tasteless and boring to eat. On the other hand, adding too much salt will turn good food into terrible food. The same thing happens in software development. Great software features … Read more
One of the most anticipated acts at a circus is the juggler! He’s a performer who can move five or six or more balls in the air at the same time. The really complicated juggling acts, however, add something extra to wow the crowd. The juggler first climbs some stairs, high up but still close … Read more
Having an efficient sprint planning meeting agenda goes a long way in advancing a software product. Agile software development aims to add more value to a software product through incremental development. We call these increments sprints. Article first appeared on LinearB blog. A sprint represents a specific amount of work that can be completed in … Read more
Assuming you already have a good software product, let’s turn our attention now to making better software. How do you take a good software product and make it better? What makes better software? In this article I will define the essential attributes of better software and what a development team should focus on for moving … Read more
IT governance is a thought framework that makes sure information technology systems provide the value an organization needs and limits the risks that come with using IT systems. I call it keeping IT assets humming with a purpose. As a subset of corporate governance, IT governance serves a similar purpose. Namely, IT governance extracts business … Read more
The software development life cycle (SDLC) started to become a formalized process for software development in the 1960s. That’s pretty much when software systems started to exist. With its loosely defined development phases, the SDLC has become a software development term that gets a lot of people talking. The SDLC, however, is more of an … Read more
Scrum is an agile framework for the development, delivery, and sustainment of complex software. In this article I touch on what scrum is, what scrum velocity is, and how to use it during software development. Article first appeared on LinearB Blog. What is Scrum? All methodologies for agile software development, including scrum, start with a … Read more
“The Hare and the Tortoise” is Aesop’s most famous fable. In it, we find two characters: one fast (the hare), and one slow (the tortoise). They run a race against each other, both hoping to get to the finish line first. However, they run in different ways. Appeared first on Enov8 blog The super confident … Read more
When developing software applications, we want to make sure the application does what the software requirements say it’s supposed to do, and testing proves that it does. In this article, I’ll explore how to link requirements to test cases, and I’ll explain what a requirement traceability matrix is and how to build a simple one. … Read more
Making good software takes a lot of things and people working together. When baking a cake, the result can be good or bad, depending on all the ingredients and processes used. Just like baking, making software takes the right ingredients and processes so that the resulting product is good. But what are the attributes of … Read more