Life is so easy if you follow a method ("Gitflow"!). Or use a framework ( "Spring"!). Or implement a guideline ("Here's how you do functional programming on immutable data structures!"). The more specific, the better - it simplifies the judgment criteria whether you've done your (engineering) work well or not: * did...
Doomsayers were claiming software developers would soon get replaced by Artificial Intelligence. Other "visionaries" predicted the inevitable rise of the generation of no-code/low-code tools that will make possible the development of various applications in natural language and/or in an entirely visual way - practically turning every willing person...
Brutal observation (not just mine, based on conversations with numerous people from various work environments across diverse geographies and cultures): many engineering organizations try to tackle their problems by stacking up more & more complex countermeasures, while the real solutions are, in fact, very simple. But unfortunately, even their most experienced...
Software development is expensive. It takes time, requires various & uncommon skills and on top of that - the developers' salaries are among the highest ones in the company. It's also affected by hard-to-grasp, unfavorable factors like technical debt that tend only to accumulate over time. No wonder that managers and...
It seems that the technical debt is one on my favorite topics ;P Looking back just a few months, I've assembled at least three posts on the subject. One of them is particularly on the cost of running software ( https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/the-cost-of-running-software/ [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/the-cost-of-running-software/]), but...
The dualism of effectiveness & efficiency (some would even say: the dichotomy (!)) is one of the most favourite topics of all Lean aficionados, Kanbanistas & other Agile-minded peeps (including prophets of Scrum ...). To be frank I've written about it on several occasions as well, in quite an opinionated way - as a...
