A common contradiction in retrospective meetings In a high-velocity sprint, developers need to cut corners, make some compromises, and push fun tasks to the next sprint. […] Software Development 07/30/19
Incident Management Process Incident Management -Production Issues- processes are created out of desperation. After a few crises, stats out of sync and unhappy […] Software Development 06/29/19
Processes over development Custom development is expensive. Even if you have a genius programmer (I’ve met a few) getting to the point where […] Software Development 06/09/19
Temporarily good After working for more than ten years with PHP, an Ad tech company hired me to build a Facebook Ads […] Software Development 06/08/19
The cost of measuring engineering ROI A long-running data sync job wasn’t working. It ran at the time it supposed to, and it completed successfully. However, […] Software Development 06/07/19
Don’t rely on partners to fix your core problems Probably your technology is not as efficient as it should be. Or your marketing funnel is leaking more than you […] Software Development 06/05/19
When is it time to hire a QA Engineer? Hiring a QA engineer will cost you an extra of around $86k per year. That’s easy to measure. What’s hard […] Software Development 05/28/19
What is the future of the data platforms? We are processing petabytes of data every day; only a few kilobytes are relevant. Storage is cheap, but processing is […] Software Development 05/19/19
Fixing a bug can save human lives One of the most expensive and dangerous stories engineers tell themselves is: “we will fix the bug in the next […] Software Development 05/18/19
How to migrate a legacy system “It works. We don’t need to replace it.” I’ve heard this many times. It is usually followed with “It is […] Software Development 05/14/19