Hris Koleva Process Improvement
Optimizing software development processes
Hris Koleva Process Improvement
Optimizing software development processes
Why do companies decide to embark on process improvement and transformation initiatives in the first place? And who is making that decision anyway? Do they understand how this works, and are they ready to go through it? Transformation success depends on our attitude and expectations. They’re generated from our background and context, but we need …
There’s more than one way to reach your destination, but you need to draw a map. Illusional Progress It’s been a common misunderstanding that startups don’t need too much of processes and organization. You’re just three people spending their own money to write code in the living room and launch an app as soon as …
Continuously deprioritising we-can-live-with-it issues costs more than fixing them. There’s an enormous invisible cost of letting these bugs out. A tiny bug might cost your business. Let’s now see how much the invisible cost of a year-old bug is. Organisational costs Every issue in your backlog requires management time. That might be the cost of revisiting the …
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 …
Reviewing CVs is like code reviews – the code must be clean, concise and readable; otherwise, it’s returned for refactoring. The difference is that no one is going to return a CV for refactoring, they will just archive it. Learn what mistakes you should avoid coming from real-life experience. I had a colleague who would …
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 …