Meeting Software Review Systems Review Weak Development Team 
Erik Bernhardsson
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision. You can of course make a series of obviously bad decisions, but you'd get fired quickly. Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems. Encourage communal ownership of systems.
The Programmer's Paradox
MARCH 16, 2023
It all has to be very reactive; you keep fiddling with the code until it gets traction. Under those conditions, it doesn’t make sense to cross all the t’s and dot the i’s as the life expectancy of the code is weeks or months. A big problem in development, particularly when a lot of people are introverts, is communication.
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Xebia
APRIL 4, 2024
In today’s business world, the synergy between stakeholders, product management and development teams are paramount. Customer’s problem At one of our major clients at Xebia customers complained, that the project velocity was inconsistent, while the development team seemed perpetually busy.
Gorilla Logic
MARCH 17, 2023
Have you ever been part of a team where tickets are hard to understand or don’t supply enough detail for the team to properly work? Experiences like these make many developers think about using Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). Know your team members You work with your team every day and know them well.
OverOps
JUNE 4, 2019
The following is a guest post from Herb Krasner, an Advisory Board Member for the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) and industry consultant for 5 decades. Meeting the customer’s expectations at a high degree of conformance is no longer expected to come at a premium – it is just expected.
Xebia
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Many teams are using Atlassian’s JIRA as an issue tracker, which then becomes a valuable source of information for their daily operations. As a team leader utilizing JIRA, you probably have employed JIRA dashboards to monitor the status of work, usually in context of a (release) planning. “won’t fix”).
Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens
DECEMBER 11, 2021
This article is the second in a four-part series on writing performance reviews. In this article, I talk about filling out the review form. The final post covers delivering the review. Before you begin to write your review, make sure you have the role and level definition for the person’s current role and level.
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