Tom Opgenorth opines and asks about technical documentation on the ALT.NET list : ...on this contract I'm leaving, there really isn't a lot of staff, nor is there a lot of format familiarity with some of the design patterns (hence my desire to leave behind some sort of formal document). Mostly...

I'll be attending the AltNetConf . Convenient for me that it's in Austin, TX. It's an open space conference, and I consider it the founding conference of a conversation that is "Alt.Net". I'll be proposing the topic: What are the Alt.Net principles? . The definition of Alt.Net...

There it is. A pile of ripped up note cards denoting all the engineering tasks completed by my pair. This was an unusual day because it started at 7:30am with some white board modeling and brain-crunching a very, very tough problem. We wrote out some tasks to get us started, and we played the TDD game...

In my first two installments of this series, I talked about: Eliminating Waste Dodging as much work as possible. These first two guidelines are very important. The first drives efficiency, and the second drives effectiveness. Even doing these first two well can leave a team spinning its wheels, however...

This is a follow on to part 1 of this series. I'm talking about how to produce software quickly. To be clear, I'm not talking about producing brittle software quickly. Software is too expensive to be built cheaply. This mantra is a good tagline, but it is so true. The software I'm asked to...

This is harder than it sounds. I'm thinking about this topic because I'm the manager of a software product team. I'm responsible for the product's health and speedy delivery. Because of that, I need to steer the team in the direction with the shortest path to the finish line. Some of the things I'm focusing...