Rikard Ottosson on software, systems and the people around them
I keep going on about why software development should consist of empowered cross-functional teams, and a lot of actual experts have written very well – at length – about this, and within manufacturing the Japanese showed…
I have recently “thought led” on LinkedIn, claiming that the future of software development lies in mob programming. I think this take automatically flips my bozo bit in the minds of certain listeners, whilst for many pe…
Why the rush to measure developer productivity?…
I have great respect for the professional agile coach and scrum master community. Few people seem to systematically care for both humans and business, maintaining profitability without ever sacrificing the humans. Now, h…
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When considering what provider to use in order to polish and cut the diamonds that are your deployable units of code into the stunningly clear diamonds they deserve to be, you have probably considered CircleCi, Azure Dev…
When building software in the modern workplace, you want to automatically test and statically analyse your code before pushing code to production. This means that rather than tens of test environments and an army of manu…
Within software engineering we often talk about Technical Debt. It was defined by elder programmer and agilist Ward Cunningham and likens trade offs made when designing and developing software to credit you can take on, …
What are the genuinely difficult aspects of transforming your software function?…
There is a recent spate of sophisticated attacks on software delivery mechanisms where cyber criminals have had massive success in breaching one organisation to get automatic access to hundreds of thousands of other orga…
When you start work on a code base, either from scratch or as you approach it as a new dev, there are a few things you should ensure are in place before you get going. Like most other things, these are easier and more na…