Hi, Is Scrum democratic? This question keeps coming up. Time and time again, I find myself in teams where this question becomes the focal point. The keyword that often comes up is “self-organized team.” How much autonomy does a self-organized team have? Undoubtedly: The team organizes its work on its own. The Product Owner decides which tasks are to be tackled and in which order. And he is a part of the team.
Hi, “After importing, we unpack the file and read the meta-information.” “And where do we write it?” “This information is stored in different databases. The path information is distributed across all service databases so that they know how to access the files. Other data is stored in the system database and in each tenant database.” Does that sound normal to you? It shouldn’t. What we are experiencing here is information duplication. “But Marcus, why is that so bad? We just need the information in different places.”
Hi, A week ago, during my talk on “Pragmatic Programming with Kotlin” , I discussed the Broken Window Theory. Originally, it’s from criminology. In criminology, the broken windows theory states that visible signs of crime, anti-social behavior, and civil disorder […] encourage further crime and disorder […]. ~ Wikipedia Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt have applied this concept to software development. Whenever there’s poor design, an unclear class, inadequately tested code, or unused assets in the repository, it becomes more likely that more “broken windows” will follow.
Hi, You probably know this feeling. You want to make a Breaking-Change in your system. Maybe you want to change an API. Or you’d like to switch up your environments. Or you want to shut down a service because it’s no longer needed. Whenever I face such a decision, I wonder about its consequences. Will it affect other stakeholders? The answer is often, yes. This is the case now. I want to conduct deployments more frequently in an environment. It’s used to test the upcoming release. And, to keep the feedback loop short, I always want the current development status on the platform.
Hi, Today, I gave a presentation titled “Pragmatic Programming with Kotlin” at KKON. It was once again a great pleasure. And because the RabbitMQ Summit is coming up this Friday, followed by the W-JAX in two weeks, I really didn’t feel like creating more slides. So, I opted for live coding. That way, I’m certainly faster in preparation (tm). But aside from my laziness, there was another reason why I chose to do this.
Marcus Held