Leading Agile
APRIL 24, 2019
Tech Infrastructure != This is a slightly broader definition of “front-end” that we normally hear from, say, web app developers. I’m including all IT resources “in front of” the API layer in the organization’s technical infrastructure. Value Stream. Half-Agile Transformations.
Leading Agile
JUNE 8, 2018
We did the application development work in Part 3. Now you’ll become an infrastructure engineer. Similarly, if you’re coming from an infrastructure background, then I hope the section of the exercise that involved test-driven development was informative. You became a programmer in Part 3. Well, sort of.
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Leading Agile
OCTOBER 31, 2018
The project is a set of scripts for provisioning and configuring a lightweight software development environment based on Ubuntu Server , a Linux operating system distribution. System administrators and infrastructure engineers don’t always use shell languages. Rspec home page (ChefSpec is based on Rspec). ChefSpec Example.
Herding Cats
JANUARY 20, 2018
But in the software development world, the domains of IT, there are two other colors of money. There are two types of software that are developed for a business: 1) internal-use software, and 2) software developed to be sold, leased or marketed (“software to be sold”). CAPEX and OPEX.
Leading Agile
OCTOBER 22, 2018
In the 1960s, it was considered a baseline good practice in software engineering to test your code as you wrote it. The pioneers of software development in that era were proponents of various levels of testing; some advocated “unit” testing and some didn’t, but all recognized the importance of testing code.
Leading Agile
APRIL 15, 2019
Many software developers will tell you it takes between 10 and 20 minutes to get back into the zone, depending on the task. After all, it isn’t realistic to think you can perform software development effectively by spending 5% of your time on it. Five percent of a 480-minute workday amounts to 24 minutes.
Leading Agile
JUNE 7, 2018
” This principle applies equally to software development. Now we’re going to do software development work. The specs are executable, and they will “fail” (display error messages) when the application does not behave according to expectations. cd playservice mkdir app. mkdir spec.
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