Software Craft – Page 4

Jan 14 2016

Question the software design – Part 3 – Design in practice

By Steliana Moraru / 1 minute of reading / Blog, Software Craft

J.B. Rainsberger and Alex Bolboaca, two experienced programmers, trainers and consultants, with more than 15 years in the software development field, took the stage and answered a series of questions about how to create better software design. Their live conversation meant sharing valuable insights and new perspectives with the audience. Below you can watch the third part of the Q&A session. […]

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Dec 11 2015

We don’t need more programmers

By Alex Bolboaca / 5 minutes of reading / Blog, Lean & Kanban, Management, Software Craft, Software Engineering

A simplistic idea started spreading for the past years in Romania, and I’ve met it to a lower extent in other European countries as France, Germany, UK, etc. Companies noticed they have a developer crisis. The simplistic solution: the universities and the industry should produce more developers. I believe this solution to be completely off

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Sep 15 2015

Company Culture – A Developer’s Perspective

By Monica Obogeanu / 3 minutes of reading / Agile, Blog, Software Craft

Recently we’ve proudly announced the launch of MozaicLabs – spin-off from MozaicWorks focusing on developing proprietary software products. As the MozaicWorks team has always been a team of practitioners, MozaicLabs focuses our doers efforts into bringing innovative products to market. Aiming to bring great value and delight to customers, we pay as much attention to the user

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Apr 10 2015

Smart People Explore Usable Software Design

By Alex Bolboaca / 4 minutes of reading / Blog, Software Craft, Software Engineering

The past couple of weeks have shown that Usable Software Design is an interesting topic to many people. From exploring it, to exchanging ideas and even applying the principles behind it, I think we live very interesting times. Here’s a brief account on what happened: Johan Martinsson applied the principles of Usable Software Design with

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Mar 5 2015

5 Steps to Mistake Proof Software Design

By Alex Bolboaca / 7 minutes of reading / Blog, Software Craft, Software Engineering

Images from Impossible Objects Catalog, based on Impossible Objects by Jacques Carelman My previous blog posts have shown how to create better software design and defined the idea of Usable Software Design. Usable Software Design comes from the simple observation that the developer is the user of a software design. My thesis is that using

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Feb 4 2015

Usable Software Design

By Alex Bolboaca / 8 minutes of reading / Blog, Software Craft

In a previous blog post, I wrote about the fact that we tend to perceive software design as userless. Whenever we talk about design in other domains than software, we discuss it from a user-centric point of view. Apple’s products are renowned because they focus on the experience of a user with their device: how

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Jan 21 2015

4 Ideas To Apply For Better Software Design

By Alex Bolboaca / 9 minutes of reading / Blog, Software Craft, Software Engineering

Software design is all the rage now. It looks like every year a few more design ideas appear. First there were the GoF design patterns. Now, MVC is the way to do web applications, while ideas like: domain driven design, ports and adapters, microservices see increase interest and adoption. I learned software design by doing,

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Jan 13 2015

5 Tips for Useful Scrum Code Reviews

By Alex Bolboaca / 6 minutes of reading / Blog, Scrum, Software Craft, Software Engineering

Every week, me and Claudia discover 2-3 potential bugs in the product we are developing during our code review sessions. This happens despite a very structured way of work and despite applying ATDD and Test First / TDD. Yet developers and technical leads complain to me in the community or during coaching sessions and workshops

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Dec 9 2014

Global Day of Coderetreat 2014 in Vienna

By Alex Bolboaca / 5 minutes of reading / Blog, Software Craft

Picture taken in the same at Global Day of Coderetreat 2014, in Bucharest This year, Peter Kofler invited me to facilitate Global Day of Coderetreat 2014 in Vienna. The event was hosted by Frequentis and sponsored by Frequentis and I TAKE Unconference. The event was setup to be a challenge for any facilitator. About half

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Nov 25 2014

Test Driven Development and incremental design

By Alex Bolboaca / 8 minutes of reading / Blog, Software Craft

As we were sharing in an article in Today Software Magazine (Adrian Bolboaca & Alexandru Bolboaca) our views about software craft, we came to the fact that Test Driven Development is one of the core practices for software crafters. Besides the increasing number of articles, blogs, short movies or books on this subject, Test Driven Development (TDD)

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