Recently Ivanti transitioned roughly 400 of their employees to a work-from-home environment in order to keep employees healthy while still working at full capacity to serve customers (sound familiar!?).
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In our next episode of the smash hit series “Coding Zealotry” (aka “The Random Babbling of a Madman”), we’re looking at the practice of peer programming (pair programming) and asking ourselves whether we should abandon our solitude and do it all together. Peering Into the Paradigm In case you’re uninitiated, peer programming involves two programmers
In a previous article entitled “The Religious Zealotry of Coding Best Practice”, we looked at how some best practices are implemented blindly, even though the costs outweigh the benefits where the practice is actually implemented. In this article we’ll take a brief look at class interfaces. It Starts Simple So here’s a classic service class
Looking across the different cultures of software houses, I’d say there are roughly three camps: 1. The Hack-Attack The fast food merchants of code production, these guys look to get it out ASAP. Do the least possible work to get the sign-off from the customer, to get a product installed that does what it’s meant
“Previously on <TV show name>…”, we discussed how a business can slide into the blame game, where the need for accountability can cause staff to avoid ownership, and where every failing can result in additional processes that produce more cost than benefit. We’re preaching the virtues of trust, but as many a broken marriage will
With thousands and thousands of blogs about sales and marketing out there, it’s tough to know which ones are the ones worth reading. Between the news, LinkedIn, Twitter, and email, most people are inundated with generic, untargeted content. Hence why, rather than labeling myself a ‘blogger’ I have dubbed myself a serial ‘Re-Blogger’. Finding targeted
I’d like to take a closer look at the use of CodeMaps in Visual Studio to debug and to document our solution. The following link to Architecture and Modeling has some very cool videos detailing how to use Code Maps to find the root cause of a bug. Further to debugging Code Maps can be used to
What is Software Licensing? Software licenses typically provide users with the right to one or more copies of the software without violating copyrights. The license also defines the responsibilities of the parties entering into the license agreement and may impose restrictions on how the software can be used. Software licensing terms and conditions usually include the usages of the
The MVP plays a key result in the final outcome. The MVP can turn a loss into a win. Keeping it simple, on target, doing the right stuff at the right time. That of course is the Minimum Viable Product. Or MVP as we shall refer to it henceforth. MVP is the antithesis of “scope
I’d like to describe to you how software products and best practice are used in the modern business world by telling you a bit about the Mongolian bow. Made from laminated layers of boiled horn, sinew and wood the Mongolian bow was the tool of war that allowed the Mongolians to create an empire that
