Teams - Morten Nielsen

Continuous delivery implementations differ due to company testing culture

I just finished reading a post about continuous delivery at Outbrain. It’s quite interesting they made a trip similar to what we have done at RemoteX. However their setup is some what different than in the our. They use a tool called Glu to do deploy to the their

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Development as a team or development as stars?

A good friend and colleague of mine Johan Andersson read somewhere that you can see the communication patterns of a company in the architecture. I can see how that makes sense, but I think its much clearer than that. I think you can see the communication patterns of a company

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A pull process

While reading The Power Of Pull, I came to think about push and pull processes. Now the definition of these is not the same as a push or pull process as used in that of lean processes, instead here a pull process regards an open platform on which participants can

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My presentation at AS2010

I held a presentation at AS2010 about handling defects. The slides are up, unfortunately there is not text in the slides and there’s no audio track… but for those who wish to see my slides you can find the at: http://www.slideshare.net/agilasverige/hantera-felhantering

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Inventory in software

I’ve been thinking a bit about all these factory references that occur when discussing software development. So here is an inventory management view, I guess. Inventory, viewed from a lean perspective is waste. If you can keep your process running with minimal inventory, then you can decrease costs for

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How you write code is a habit

These last couple of days we have been having a internal TDD course at RemoteX. We had the help of Andreas Brink, whom guided us in testing and over all code quality. One of the things I noticed during the course is how heavily influenced I was by old habits.

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Understanding code

“I can look at code and understand it but i cant write code” There seems to be a common misunderstanding that if you can read code and “understand what it does” you understand the code. I’m sorry, If you cant write the code yourself, you do not understand the

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I write laws

I went through a business contract, analysing it for weaknesses. I found a not likely case, but still pointed it out. “You should be a lawyer”, the lawyer says “I write laws”, I reply. Now why am I writing this? Well, there are similarities to developing Laws and developing business

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Tooling idea for Getting things done with teams

Roughly 1½ year ago I produce a plugin for team-system to allow me to report bugs quickly though as I’m working with the code. The idea behind it was from the Fogbugzintoruction video where I think its Joel Spolsky who says something along the lines of “it should take

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How I work with code the unit test part

I wrote a blog post about how I work with code. The basic idea is that I record actions that I need to take as I work with the code in a format that is readable by the other developers in my team. In case I get run over by

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Getting things done with teams

With this concept of quickly creating new tasks and with the GTD and How I work with code ideas. An idea for a new tool popped up in my head. The tasks that I create based on working code, are cluttered with my own opinions. With the Getting Things Done

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The user always knows what he or she wants

He or she might even know how to say it. It doesn’t mean that a developer will understand. http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0676.html Communication is everything.

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How I work with code

In Getting Things Done, David Allen discusses a work flow of how to handle things you need to-do. Now when I work at a coding task I often find places that could need some refactoring love, or needs to change in some way. There might be potential bugs, violations of

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The importance of teaching

I have a good friend whom after university focused on first communication and then management. But now he has turned to development. We’ve been having a few discussion over the past few days about SOLID and REST and Grails. IoC containers and what not. He hasn’t seen these

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ComparativeValues

I recently read Martin Fowlers Bliki entry ComparativeValues. Where he talks about the values listed in the Agile Manifesto. Now Ive given this some thought and there are some things I find interesting. If you look at it, what he says is that the Agile Manifesto it self is Agile.

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Source control folder anti-pattern

I ran into this issue at work today. Another team depends on my teams code to create customer specific solutions. Now they have an issue where they have to keep track of which versions are currently in use, and produce software for the different solutions. Now I have issues with

SCRUM

Sprint startup

A while back we started with one-week sprints. For several reasons. We had four-week sprints earlier, but sometimes it was unclear what we were supposed to deliver and what we delivered. Today we started our third one-week sprint. The start-up meeting took 20 minutes, and was a stand up meeting.

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Technical team-building

I firmly believe that; if a team has a common view of how software is to be developed. The team can produce software a lot faster. If not only for the fact that if the team shares a common view of how code is structured, in an object-oriented sense, then