Hris Koleva Process Improvement
Optimizing software development processes
Hris Koleva Process Improvement
Optimizing software development processes
No startup starts with a tester. Then 2 years later, that startup can’t release a new feature for their biggest customer ever unless they rewrite the whole thing with a big bang. It’s painful to watch this over and over again. There are simple things to do to keep the sanitary quality of our software, so …
Story Points are still yet another of the great mysteries in the Agile world. They are such a mystery that they gave birth to the #NoEstimation movement. A part of the Agile community has indeed found better ways to answer when the job will be done, but most of us still struggle to give correct story …
Regardless of the framework, method, methodology, all software development processes could benefit significantly from applying validation steps across the entire process. Let’s turn Definition of Done into a powerful mechanism to assure built-in quality. Understanding Definition of Done Definition of Done is an underestimated mechanism to guide the development team not only towards completing a user …
Software engineers are often seen as the victims of a wrong development process. Everyone wants something from them – product managers, designers, testers, customers and they want it now. But do we remember what a great fellow developer looks like? Inspired by a comment from a close friend of mine when I shared Mike Cohn’s …
Startups are the newest business model for software companies. Find out more about why everyone wants to start a startup and what are the risks. Startup companies are my last special category of a software company. We talked about product and outsourcing companies in the previous posts. Now let’s complete this chapter with the startups. Everyone has a startup. With the development …