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Acceptance Tests: The Best Medium of Communication Between Stakeholders (if done right)
It’s a nice pleasant morning, and you have just entered the office. You greet your friends and grab a cup of coffee. You check your email and there is a new story assigned to you. “As a customer, I get my usage logs backed up” This is where is fun begins. Communicating Requirements A…
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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…
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Fail Fast: Hone Your Ability to Recover and Respond Quickly
It’s close to midnight and you are about to wrap your day off. Suddenly you get a pager-duty to resolve a critical bug that’s failing some of the automated reporting emails. You go on to check the logs in the log management tool. This is not the ideal time to find out that logs are not…
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