Craftsmanship

Thoughts about Craftsmanship and Software development approaches

• How hard can it be? 27 Oct 2024

• Tests should Fail 18 Sep 2024

• Incremental Delivery? 16 Sep 2024

• Incremental and Iterative 13 Sep 2024

• Typing is not the rate limiting step 08 Sep 2024

• Radical Simplicity 06 Sep 2024

• Utilizing SQL 05 Oct 2023

• Getting feedback from running code 02 Sep 2023

• Software as Capital 16 Apr 2023

• Architectural Consistency - How hard can it be? 29 Jan 2023

• Prioritization and Cycle Time 07 Jan 2023

• More Dan North and CUPID 06 Oct 2022

• Choosing what to work on at the start of a project 18 Sep 2022

• Affordances in programming languages 11 Aug 2022

• Implications of Shift-Left for Quality Assurance 31 Jul 2022

• Automating system tests for Defects 05 Jun 2022

• Just-In-Time, Work-In-Progress and Kanban 05 May 2022

• Applying Quality Assurance to your Tests 27 Feb 2022

• Dan North and CUPID 17 Feb 2022

• Year 15 of the five year plan to retire the mainframe 09 Jan 2022

• Just say no to software certifications 30 Nov 2021

• Craftsmanship and Engineering 01 Oct 2021

• Slow decision making as a failure mode for Scrum 09 Sep 2021

• Revisiting "Applying the Lessons of eXtreme Programming" 11 Aug 2021

• Another take on Engineering vs. Craftsmanship 19 Jan 2021

• As time passes, only COBOL lasts 05 Apr 2020

• Cynefin Framework for understanding Methodologies 17 Mar 2019

• Learning The World 04 Mar 2019

• Delayed Start as a cause of Project Failure 11 Jan 2019

• How to fail at Agile part 1 03 Aug 2016

• Back to the future (again) 02 Dec 2015

• So much universe, and so little time 12 Mar 2015

• Kevlin Henney - Seven Ineffective Coding Habits 15 Feb 2015

• Craftsmanship in other fields 08 Feb 2015

• The Hard Way is Easier... 19 Nov 2014

• A different take on software engineering 11 Nov 2014

• A different view on testing 28 Sep 2014

• Understanding the problem 01 Jul 2014

• Craftsmanship around the web 29 Jun 2014

• Software Craftsmanship depends on developers knowing the craft of coding 04 Jun 2014

• We can learn a lot from Healthcare.gov... 21 Nov 2013

• Apple messes up with Pages UI - stupid ideas 01 Nov 2013

• Software Craftsmanship - Simplified Chinese edition 20 Sep 2013

• Are they trying to put people off programming? 27 Feb 2013

• Slides from Agile Calgary talk 07 Dec 2012

• What Programmers Want is Less Stupid 13 Nov 2012

• More Lessons From Outside The Field 16 Mar 2012

• Jim Bird's take on Technical Debt 17 Feb 2012

• Understanding The Value Of Code 06 Feb 2012

• Lessons From Outside The Field 15 Jan 2012

• The Essence of Craftsmanship 19 Oct 2011

• An Inquiry Into The Value Of Work 18 Jul 2011

• Another take on the Software Engineering idea 23 Jun 2011

• Magical Thinking 07 Jun 2011

• Understanding The Fundamentals 31 May 2011

• Story About The Start Of Scientific Management 21 Apr 2011

• Some History Of Programming 12 Mar 2011

• Time for Intolerance? 16 Feb 2011

• Kanban for Software Development? 31 Jan 2011

• Productivity and Compensation 27 Jan 2011

• Software Craftsmanship Revisited 20 Jan 2011

• No, I don't agree with the manifesto 29 Dec 2010

• Software Development, Planning and Timescales 27 May 2010

• Good process vs. Bad process 17 Jan 2010

• Still Questioning Extreme Programming 03 Jan 2010

• Make Lists. Not Too Much. Mostly Do. 12 Dec 2009

• An amusing speculation about the Waterfall 10 Dec 2009

• Time to move beyond Agile? 29 Nov 2009

• Real Options 17 Oct 2009

• Cooper on Agile 22 Sep 2009

• Certification just won't go away 22 Sep 2009

• Kent Beck's blog has some great quotes 20 Sep 2009

• Defending Software Craftsmanship 12 Sep 2009

• Masterpiece Engineering 05 Sep 2009

• Lecturing Birds on Flying 03 Sep 2009

• We Don't Know How To Program? 05 May 2008

• Alan Cooper and Modern Craftsmanship 01 Mar 2008

• Thoughts on the future of software 21 Jan 2008

• More Certification ideas 04 Jul 2007

• What does 25 years of improvement look like? 02 Jul 2007

• Rejecting Software Engineering 28 Jun 2007

• Hiring Good Developers 21 Jun 2007

• Craftsmanship and Certification 06 Jun 2007

• Professionalism and Engineering 19 Jan 2007

• A classic quote 08 Dec 2006

• In praise of C++ 02 Dec 2006

• Wading through code 18 Nov 2006

• Agile requires discipline 12 Oct 2006

• What evidence do we have that Agile works? 10 Oct 2006

• Guess my answer to this 08 Oct 2006

• Requirements - Documentation, Conversation or Invention? 12 Aug 2006

• Implicit Constraints and Requirements Capture 11 Aug 2006

• What are requirements? 08 Aug 2006