development – Priyank Verma

September 2, 2018

A plea for lean software: 6 Lessons I learned to help keep software simple

Preface Recently, I was browsing the codebase of my company and saw that it has three versions of dashboards for an analytics page in it. I am pretty sure that customers don’t need that. This sparked something in my naive brain and I started exploring the internet for related ideas. That’s when I found […]

Software Engineering

“FAT, (or, –, 1., 10, 2., 3., 4., 5., 6., A, abstractions, acceptable, accommodate, accurately, add, adding, admiration., age-old, ago., aids, all, allows, also, am, an, analytics, and, any, appropriate, architecture, are, armies, as, at, available, away, baffling., be, because, become, belief, better, bigger, brain, browsing, built, bulky, But, by, can, cannot, cause, causes, changed, changes:, code, codebase, communication, company, compared, compiler, complex., complexity, components, conceivable, Conclusion, confidence, consider, consumed, continue, curtail, customers, customized, dashboards, decomposed, decomposition, degree, deletion, deliberately, deprecated, design, designed, designers, designing, detail, detailed, development, disagree, disciplined, discussed, does, doesn’t, Don’t, duplication., each, either, Enhanced, enough, entire, entirety, errors, essential, essentials., etc., even, every, expands, experience, exploring, explosion, extensibility, extensions, extent, faster, feature, features, fill, Finding, first, flexibility, following, for, foremost, form, found, from, functional, functionality, get, getting, goal, grows, hard, hardware, has, have, help, hierarchy, higher, holds, hope, how, huge., I, I’ll, ideas, if, ignored, important, improve, in, incompatibility, Incomprehensibility, increase, increased, individual, influenced, insanely, interfaces, Internet, into, introduction, irrelevant, is, It’s, it., justify, keep, keeping, key, kill, killed, languages, largely, laws, lean, Learned, least, lessons, Let’s, lies, like, live, machines, main, maintainability., Make, Making, me, measured., memory, methodologies, mind, minimizing, modern, modules, Monolithic, more, most, much, must, my, naive, need, needed?, needless, nerve, never, new, No, Not, now, number, of, on, one, order, original, outset., over, page, paper, part, passes, Patterns., people, pinpoint, place., Plea, PM, post, power, predominant., Preface, prerequisite, presented, pressure, pretty, primary, probably, problems, programmers, programming, proper, quantity becomes, rapidly, reacted, reason, Recently, reduce, Reducing, reflect, related, release?, remember, remove, rendered, required, requires, resonated, Resources, responses, responsibility, return, root., run, saw, seem, sell.”, sensitive, should, significant, similar, simple, simpler, single, size, slower, small, software, Solution, some, something, sophistication, sparked, specification, standard, started, state, step, Still, streamline, streamlined, Strongly, structures, suggested, sure, suspicion, system, systems., take, taking, teach, team, teams, than, than quality. Every, that, that’s, the, their, them., there, these, things, this, three, time., to, Today, toll, too., tools, topic, touch, true, two, typed, understood, unrecognized., us, usage?, use, user, versions, very, was, way, we, were, what, when, which, while, with, write, wrong., years
May 5, 2018

Organization Archetypes And The Concept Of Market-Oriented “Solver Teams”

Organizations which designs systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structure of the organization. In other words, how we organize our teams has a powerful effect on the software we produce, as well as our resulting architectural and production outcomes. Thus, in order to get a fast flow of work from […]

Uncategorized

“E-Shaped”, “Solver, A, a bunch of, a fast, able, admins, advantage., Advantages, all, also, an, analysis, and, Another, Archetypes, architectural, architecture, are, areas, as, at, attempt, be, because, becoming, being, benefits, bring, Broadly, business, But, call, called, can, capabilities, centralize, combine, communication, complicated, composed, comprehensive, conception, Conclusion, constrained, contribute, copies, cost., coupled, covering, cross-disciplinary, cross-functional, customer, data, deliver, delivery, dependencies, deployment, design, designs, develop, development, DevOps, disciplines, division, done, dramatically, each, effect, Enable, Enables, enabling, engineering, engineers, entire, etc., ever, every, Ex., execution, experiments, expertise, experts, fast, faster, feature, flat, flow, folks!, for, from, functional, Functional-oriented:, generalist, get, great, has, have, having, helps, hierarchical, high, highly, how, idea., impact, improves, in, increasing, independently, inform, innate, instead, interesting, is, it., knowledge, launch, learning, like, machine, major, managers, market, market-oriented, marketing, Matrix-oriented:, matrix and market., member, members, move, much, multi-specialist, multiple, must, nature, needs., Not, number, of, on, only, operational, Operations, opportunities, optimizations, optimize, order, organization., Organizational, Organizations, organize, orientation., other, our, outcomes., overwhelming., own, person, plays, point, points, poorly, powerful, prevent, primarily, problem, problems, produce, production, provides, quality, quickly., Reducing, rely, reporting, respond, responding, responsible, resulting, results, retirement, safely, same, saw, Server, service, services, single, small, smoother, software, solve, solving, speaking, specialist, specialists., speed, Squad, SREs, start, stream, stream: functional, structure, structured, structures, successful, support., systems., tall, team, teams, technologies., tend, testing., than, that, that’s, the, their, them., there, these, they, they’ll, this, three, Thus, tightly, to, tracking, types, user, value, waiting, want, we, well, when, which, who, with, without, words, work, working
April 29, 2018

Devops and The Principle Of Flow

In the technology value stream, work typically flows from Development to Operations, steps consisting of functional areas between our business and our customers. As stated in the lean principles developed by Toyota, we should optimize to get a single-piece fast and smooth flow for our releases. We increase flow by: Making work visible, Reducing batch […]

Uncategorized

(or, (WIP), 10, 310, 4., 40, A, above, acceptance, According, achieving, activities, added, affecting, after, agile, all, allow, already, amount, an, and, Another, any, anything, Application, are, areas, as, at, batch, batches., be, become, before, being, better, between, beyond, bigger, board, bouncing, brochures, bugs., Building, business, But, by, by urgent, bypassed, can, cards, case, categories, causes, centers., changes:, channel, codifying, column, coming, common, communication, complete, completed only, completes, component, Conclusion, consisting, control, creating, customer, customers, daily, decrease, defects, defining, delay, demands, deploy, deserves, developed, development, DevOps, difference, do, doesn’t, dominated, done, downstream, dramatically, dynamic, each, easy, eliminating, encounter, enforcing, ensures, entire, envelope, envelopes., essential, every, example, Explaining, external, Extra, far, fast, fast-flow, features, find, first, flow, flows, fold, folded, folks!, following, for, from, fulfill, functional, furthur, get, gets, given, goal, hardships, have, help, how, However, I, Ideally, if, implementing, Improving, in, increase, increasing, insert, internal, intervals, into, invisible., is, It’s, it., just, kanban, Kanban board., keep, key, Knaban, large, lead, lean, Let’s, levels., like, Limit, limiting, limits, mail, mailing, Make, Making, manual, manufacture, manufacturing, material, may, more, multi-tasking, multiple, needed?, new, next, No, Non-standard, Not, now, of, off., on, one, one-piece, only, Operations, optimize, other, our, our work, out, outcomes., over, own, paper, Partially, passed, pay, perform, performing, piece, piled, pioneer, point, possible., post, Practice, Prefer, prevent, preventing, principles, Prior, processes., processing, production, Progress, QA, quality, reaches, reduce, Reducing, releases., reliability., requests, required, requires, resource, result, revolution, right, Running, same, satisfy, seal, sealed., seconds., sequentially, services, set, Shiego, Shingo, should, side, significant, single, single-piece, size, sizes, skyrocketing, small, smooth, So, software, some, something, soon., span, speeding, stakeholders., stamp, starting, stated, step, steps, stream, streams, successfully, such, suppose, switching, system, take, takes, task, teams, technology, ten, testing., than, that, that’s, the, the ideal, them., there, this, those, three, through, time., times, to, toyota, traditional, Trello, trouble?, typically, up, us, use, using, value, visible, visual, waiting, was, waste:, wastes, way, we, well, what, when, where, which, while, why, will, willing, with, without, words, work, worst, Yet
February 3, 2017

E-Summit ’17 IIT Bombay — Experience

E-Summit is the flagship entrepreneurship event organized by IITB. The two-day annual summit promises to be an amazing meeting ground for industry experts, business leaders, investors and entrepreneurs and of course, students, many of whom are aspiring entrepreneurs. I attended this event in its 2017 edition and had mixed feelings on how the whole thing […]

Growth and Self-Development, Uncategorized

17, bombay, business, characters, competition, development, entrepreneurship, esummit, experience, fun, iit, iitb, innovation, introduction, learning, media, people, web
January 15, 2017

The Blue Ocean Strategy : How To Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked. The whole idea of The Blue Ocean Strategy is to create uncontested market spaces that creates new demands and make the competition irrelevant. The book describes Red Oceans as known […]

Uncategorized

blue, books, business, competition, development, entrepreneurship, glossary, how, innovation, Internet, irrelevant, learning, ocean, people, red, strategy, summary, technology
December 19, 2016

5 notes on MVP architecture pattern for Android

Image credits Macoscope MVP (Model View and Presenter) is an architectural pattern inspired by the popular MVC pattern. MVP addresses two main points : Make views as […]

Uncategorized

android, android studio, Application, architecture, coding, development, fun, how, Internet, introduction, java, learning, libraries, Linux, mobile, MVC, MVP, pattern, programming, technology, to, web
June 27, 2015

Agile For Dummies : Reading experience

Agile For Dummies Here we go for the 2nd time. My 2nd book for 2015’s 10 book reading challenge is Agile For Dummies. As I wrote in my previous post I am going to avoid fiction and love stories, but focus more on technical and personal improvement books. By the time I wrote this post […]

Uncategorized

agile, development, dummies, reading, review

Tag: development