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Object Oriented Paradigm The paradigm’s roots started in the 1960s and became dominant during the 1990s. Although it is not exactly an architectural paradigm, it is used as a basic organization of components. The Object Oriented Paradigm
Let me start with a code sample (in java) that will demonstrate what I am going to talk about: ... private IMAPService _mapService; public RealEstateField createField(List<Coordinate> coordinates) { RealEstateField field = new RealEstateField(); field.setCoordinates(coordinates));
Often I hear people doubting the effectiveness of unit tests, they usually say “most bugs we encounter with are ‘integration bugs’”, “they usually happen due to integration flaws with the DB, with some external API, with some configuration,
Understand the Requirements The first step for a productive code review is to understand what the task was all about and think about possible solutions. Once you understand the requirements, the code review can be more productive
Imagine a cool startup place. It has top notch working stations, huge monitors, the latest keyboards. Programmers have open cheques to choose their workstations: Mac Pro, Symphonia, ThinkStation – you name it, you got it.Vintage Pinball and Pacman machines
Have you ever stopped to think about how Legacy Code impacts your time & money? How it impacts your products’ quality, hence, your customers? How it affects your employees? In this article I will try to cover the
I’ve had this thought for a while now of demonstrating how can people and organizations deal with everyday situations and present an analysis of them based on my personal views, while some might find this judgmental, others
“A good Scrum master can serve a few teams. A great Scrum Master will serve only one”. rephrasing Michael James There’s an ongoing debate on whether a team needs a full time Scrum master for the
A Scrum Master recently asked me: What should he do if the team members don’t want to do the daily standup every day? After all, he told me, the daily stand up should happen every day, shouldn’t
One of the worst nightmares of a plant manager or a supermarket owner is the silence that accompanies a complete halt at the production line or at the checkouts. Complete halt means nothing progressing, which means no
I have a confession to make: My name is Anat, and I was infected with the agile virus while I was a product owner.The first agile technique that made me look at the system differently was the
One of the first thing they tell us about stories, is that they should be valuable. That’s what the ‘V’ in INVEST stands for: Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INVEST_(mnemonic): V – Valuable – A user story must deliver value to the
Many teams feel the need to go over finished stories and update their story points in order to reflect the amount of effort needed to complete them. They general notion is that it’s a good idea to
Much has been written about the importance of working in short cycles, and the need to cut and slice your stories to small pieces that will fit inside of a single sprint. I’m not going to repeat
While i expect this to be rare and unfamiliar to most of my readers, in some organizations there are managers that sometimes complain about teams, specifically about their productivity and quality. As an external, i often do
We have a bug in our industry: We over glorify bugs. We love them so much, that we use them as a primary metric for quality. My take is that that is a bad idea. Bad, as
We all love them. Those hours of pure fun, creativity and innovation. Meetings. How come that we love them so much? Is it the coffee? Is it the the comfortable chairs and large tables? Is it the
“Look, it’s critical that we meet our deadline, and I know that we are already running behind. So please, we need you to push faster no matter the costs. And I don’t care if you need to
Writing tests for legacy code may seem risky, even daunting: will we break our code? Will we need to rewrite extensive parts of our code in order to test it? Not many know that by following fairly
The most frequent question I run into is “Being a scrum master requires so much, how would I have time to also stay part of the team and develop?” or in other words “I am 50% scrum
When I was a child I had an operation on my shoulder. It was a scheduled operation, nothing urgent. And it left me with an ugly scar on my back. Today, it’s still very notable after all
All of the teams I have worked with had come to understand that the retrospective ceremony is a necessary tool when wishing to increase effectiveness. However, many are still struggling to yield valuable action items in these
Tony was a Scrum Master. He started measuring the development trends of his team. However, whenever he selected a metric, he got the impression that developers were manipulating the results to meet the targets he set. For
Following the meetup we wish to share tips for online retrospectives, including specific learning points from this meetup
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Several weeks ago, Josef (pseudonym), a dad from my son’s school contacted me and sent me a link to this article: “A Before-School Exercise Program May Help Children Thrive”.After reading the article, I talked to Josef and
Back in 2013 I published the following post, but since I know, no one actually read these links I’ve chosen to quote that post in full. Sadly enough I still get that question way to often to my
6 Architectural Concepts to Get Familiar With
Object Oriented Paradigm The paradigm’s roots started in the 1960s and became dominant during the 1990s. Although it is not exactly an architectural paradigm, it
Composite objects – (how) do you assert them?
Let me start with a code sample (in java) that will demonstrate what I am going to talk about: … private IMAPService _mapService; public
Unit tests, do they worth it?
Often I hear people doubting the effectiveness of unit tests, they usually say “most bugs we encounter with are ‘integration bugs’”, “they usually happen due to
5 Things to Improve Your Code Review
Understand the Requirements The first step for a productive code review is to understand what the task was all about and think about possible solutions.
Warning! Coderoaches!
Imagine a cool startup place. It has top notch working stations, huge monitors, the latest keyboards. Programmers have open cheques to choose their workstations: Mac Pro, Symphonia,
Legacy Code – costs you a hell of a lot of money
Have you ever stopped to think about how Legacy Code impacts your time & money? How it impacts your products’ quality, hence, your customers? How it
