20+ hour, 32+ min ago  (460+ words) In Part 1 of this article (link to part 1 here), I talked about organizing the code itself: architecture, Clean Code, and SOLID. But well-written code isn't enough if the team around it doesn't have a clear process for versioning, documentation, and…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (452+ words) Every sprint starts with optimism. The board is clean, the story points are perfectly balanced, and the team is ready to ship. The CEO wants a "quick favor." A major client finds a critical bug in production. The marketing team…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (623+ words) Linux MD is an experimental project that aims to run Linux on the Mega Drive, a home video game console released by Sega in 1988. Developer Daniel Palmer has made it publicly available on Git Hub, allowing users to boot the…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1705+ words) The engineering manager sat across from me with a look I've seen too many times. "I don't understand it," he said. "We have good developers. Smart people. Everyone is working hard. But we're always late. We're always behind. Every sprint…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago  (215+ words) Hackaday If you were in the market for a games console in 1990, the chances are that the object of your desire was either a Super Nintendo with its 16-bit 6502 derivative, or the Sega Megadrive, sold as the Genesis in North…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago  (959+ words) I got laid off in March. By April I had 6 side projects shipped, including one Chrome extension with 15 real users. When I tell people this, they ask: how do you have time for 6 projects while job hunting? The answer is…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (594+ words) Small development teams are often praised for their speed, agility and ability to deliver meaningful results with limited resources. Larger engineering organizations face different pressures, including added complexity, broader coordination needs and higher stakes, but that doesn't mean they can't…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (34+ words) Cross-functional teams sounded great at twenty engineers. At fifty, hidden dependencies between teams are quietly killing your delivery speed-and your sprint board won't show it. A platform engineer's honest take for founders...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (294+ words) Let's be honest. Agile isn't failing in your organization. Your portfolio management is. Most Agile transformations focus on teams: And teams do improve. But the business outcome? Still disappointing. The Real Problem: Agile Solves Delivery, Not Decisions Agile is great…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (140+ words) " Introducing Scrum Suite - a real-time agile toolkit for scrum teams. It worked well enough for us that we figured other teams might hit the same walls. So we hosted it for everyone. " Sprint Poker - Instant rooms, Fibonacci voting, hidden cards,…...