Category Archives: Development Practice

The Seven Wastes of Software Development | Agile Zone

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Kon

The Seven Wastes of Software Development – Introduction Waste #1 – Partially Done Work Waste #2 – Extra Features Waste #3 – Relearning Waste #4 – Handoffs Waste #5 – Delays Waste #6 – Task Switching Waste #7 – Defects … Continue reading →

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The interruptible programmer

Posted on October 17, 2010 by neversleepz

A read a good blog post about learning to work interrupted.  Work 2.0 – the interruptible programmer.  The blogger had to learn to switch from a conventional, anti-interruption, get in ‘the mode’ then stay there for as many hours as possible, … Continue reading →

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Procrastinators Workflow

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Kon

or workflow to help procrastinators.

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Reading Other Peoples & your own old code

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Kon

Old code is hard to read.  Even your own.  Its not uncommon 6 months down the track, to experience a bit of “what was I thinking when I wrote that?”.  Its one of the first things drummed into me by … Continue reading →

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Legacy Java Systems

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Kon

I’ve had my fair share of working with legacy code.  I don’t think legacy code is a bad thing because its existence means it has addressed the majority of the needs of the business successfully enough to stay around.  However, … Continue reading →

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Facilitation Patterns and Antipatterns

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Kon

I read with great interest, the blog by steven list about Facilitation patterns (its also about a whole lot of other things Agile related) It goes through a lot of different characters of facilitators in an engaging way – dare … Continue reading →

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