Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Don’t take the Technical Debt Metaphor too far

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Because “technical debt” has the word “debt” in it, many people have decided that it makes sense to think and work with technical debt in mo...
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Friday, December 14, 2012

SANS Application Security Survey

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Frank Kim and I helped out with an industry-wide survey on application security practices. The results of the survey and our analysis can be...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Are bugs part of technical debt?

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Everybody is talking about technical debt today: developers , testers , consultants , managers - even executives . But the more that peo...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Rule of 30 – When is a method, class or subsystem too big?

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A question that constantly comes up from people that care about writing good code, is: what’s the right size for a method or function , or a...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Why Scrum Won

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In the 1990s and early 2000s a number of different lightweight "agile" development methods sprung up . Today a few shops use Ex...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Predictability - Making Promises you can Keep

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Speed – being first to market, rapid innovation and conducting fast cheap experiments – is critically important to startups and many high te...
Friday, November 9, 2012

Health Checks, Run-time Asserts and Monkey Armies

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After going live, we started building health checks into the system – run-time checks on operational dependencies and status to ensure that ...