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Discovering Your Software UmweltOnward! 20242024-10-23
Applies the biological concept of umwelt to software development by having each author write 1500-word narratives about their tooling, careers, and surprising…
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Critically Engaging with ModelsDDD Europe 20222022-06-20
Models like the Agile Manifesto, C4, Team Topologies and the Spotify pattern shape what gets noticed and valued; the concrete method is to compare and contrast…
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Elephants, Patterns, and Heuristics -DDD Europe 20202020-02-06
Claim: design patterns are like elephants — observable but often misunderstood — and pattern descriptions are local, testable theories that need personal…
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Why We Need Architects (and Architecture) on Agile ProjectsPhilly ETE 20152015-04-07
Argues that agile teams still need active architectural roles and gives concrete practices: use design spikes (hours–days) and bounded architecture spikes (1–6…
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Project Retrospectives (Why, How, When)JDD 20122012-10-25
Retrospectives is becoming an accepted an important practice as part of the software development process. In fact, most Agile practices promote some form of…
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Why We Need Architects (and Architecture) on Agile ProjectsJDD 20122012-10-25
Argues that architecture must be explicit on larger agile projects to avoid crippling architecture debt, using concrete practices: timeboxed design innovation…
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Pragmatic Not DogmaticJDD 20122012-10-25
Argument: tests only help when they target the right scenarios and evolve with the code. Evidence: an 85% coverage rule produces empty or fake asserts (85%…
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