Having spent the second half of my software engineering career doing ‘agile’ development, I think I’ve spent more time trying to convince people what agile is not than explaining to the uninitiated what it is. Since the so-called manifesto was published in 2001, the whole thing’s been so abused, monetized and co-opted that, for all intents and… Read More The molten core of agile
My central idea was to use SSDT to build a dacpac file that would define the schema of our testing database and wrap that DACPAC artifact in a nuget package that testing projects could reference. It’s not uncommon during early attempts to bootstrap CI and automated testing for an engineering team to start with ‘unit’ tests that… Read More Build a testing database with SSDT and NuGet
When launching a new business or a new initiative, I see lots of teams make the mistake of obsessing over what process they are going to use to manage the software production efforts. They start, typically, with some ‘textbook’ example of SCRUM©… this quickly leads to obsessive debate over what ticketing tools to use… which then devolves… Read More Build culture not process
Serious problems require a serious tool… Meetings should center on concisely written reports on paper, not fragmented bulleted talking points projected up on the wall. -Edward Tufte If every software meeting that you attend is being driven by a PowerPoint deck, don’t kid yourself: you’ve got yourself a serious problem. This is a sign of an… Read More Management by PowerPoint
Originally posted on Fortigent:
“In many ways, dimensional modeling amounts to holding the fort against assaults on simplicity” – Ralph Kimball, The Data Warehouse Toolkit Although there are many reasons that an organization may consider building a “data warehouse”, most of the time the overwhelming reason is performance related… a report or web page is…
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