Alex Bolboaca – Page 5

Aug 26 2023

Beyond Budgeting by Bjarte Bogsnes @ Agility Summit 2020

By Alex Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Blog, Video

Bjarte Bogsnes has a long international career, with 20 years of leadership experience, both in Finance and HR. He is a pioneer in the Beyond Budgeting movement and has been heading up the implementation of Beyond Budgeting at Equinor (formerly Statoil), Scandinavia’s largest company. Equinor realized that traditional leadership and management practices no longer work […]

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Aug 19 2023

Fitness and Workout for Software Architecture Talk

By Alex Bolboaca / 2 minutes of reading / Blog, Video

Most of the attention in software architecture is given to new styles (eg. microservices, serverless) or technology changes. Too little attention is given to the process of creating, evolving, and maintaining the architectural models and decisions. Yet this process is immensely valuable since with the right process you can adopt innumerable architectural styles and adapt

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Aug 12 2023

The Blind Spot of Strong Type Proponents

By Alex Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Blog, Video

In which we realize that proponents of strong types focus a lot on the mathematical constructs and have a blind spot for the other superpower of code designers: naming.

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Aug 5 2023

Programming Memes Reaction

By Alex Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Blog, Fun & Innovative, Video

Just reacting to some programming memes. Sources:

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Jul 29 2023

AI LLM Predictions

By Alex Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Blog, Video

Alex offers some predictions for the evolution of AI in the next months. As usual, predictions can be wrong, but they are useful for conversations. Links:

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Jul 22 2023

Architectural Diagrams Focused on Audience Type

By Alex Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Blog, Video

Prompted by an article about 5 types of architectural diagrams optimized for different audiences, we look into the things that are needed from architectural diagrams, and how they compare between the UML, agile, C4, and this new model. Links:

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Jul 15 2023

Affordances in Code Design

By Alex Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Blog, Video

The concept of affordance was introduced by Donald Norman in his seminal book on usability “The Design of Everyday Things”. Affordances refer to parts of the design that point to the possibility of acting on them. Any design needs affordances, but when we aim for usability they need to clearly communicate their goal and way

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Jul 8 2023

Pull Requests – Should You Use Them?

By Alex Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Blog, Video

Thierry de Pauw is thinking about creating a talk on “Pull Requests are evil”, so to help him we decided to discuss the pros and cons of pull requests. Happy learning! Links:

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Jul 1 2023

Connascence Explained

By Alex Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Blog, Video

In one of our previous videos, we mentioned connascence without going into details. Prompted by a comment, here is a 20 minutes explanation of this complex concept. Enjoy! Links:

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Jun 24 2023

Github Copilot Productivity Study and Reducing Hallucinations

By Alex Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Blog, Video

A recent study showed that introducing Github Copilot as a dev AI assistant has led to situations when developers spend quite a lot of their time dealing with the AI instead of developing. We review this study and share some ideas around the use of AI in development. Links:

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