Are feature branches evil? Is trunk based development the solution to your problems? Or is there something more to it? (Spoiler warning: we believe that incremental thinking is the solution to the root problem) Alex shares his thoughts on Thierry de Pauw’s article and talk “Feature Branches Considered Evil”. Check out Thierry’s article here: https://thinkinglabs.io/articles/2021/07/14/on-the-evilness-of-feature-branching-a-tale-of-two-teams.html […]

What is software architecture? Should there be a software architect role, particularly in agile teams? Or will the team take over? Watch the video for answers and more. Alex reacts to the InfoQ article “Software Architecture: It Might Not Be What You Think It Is” written by Pierre Pureur and Kurt Bittner and reviewed by

If you know the birth date of a person and the current date, what age is that person? The answer is: it depends on location. We react in this video to the South Korean way of computing age, and to other falsehoods programmers believe. And we give advice on how to be prepared for the

Are full-stack developers still possible? How about T-shaped? We discuss this topic, starting from a tweet by Ferdinando Santacroce https://twitter.com/jesuswasrasta/status/1509802299840995328

Does JIRA help agility? Does it hinder it? Why do some people love it and others hate it? We decided to tackle the elephant in many agile rooms, and react to a few articles about JIRA vs. agility. Here are the links: https://www.andykelk.net/agile/why-all-the-jira-hate-ill-tell-you-why https://deviniti.com/blog/enterprise-software/why-hate-jira/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/09/jira-is-an-antipattern/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/11/death-to-jira/ Adi Bolboaca is a VP, trainer and coach at

We debunk a few myths about programming submitted from twitter: Pair programming is pay two people for doing one person job Business people can’t understand technical stuff. Developers can’t understand business stuff Writing software is a mere technical job You have to do … (agile, scrum, kanban, whateva) A high skilled software developer is always