Hi,
Dave Thomas never tires of mentioning that “agile” is an adjective - and not a noun. It is not capitalized.
The legendary document we have been referencing for nearly a quarter of a century is not called “The Agile Manifesto.”
It is called the “Manifesto for Agile Software Development” . 👈
Agile is not something that can be bought. The manifesto describes how to develop software in an agile (as an adjective!) manner. It does not describe a product.
Hi,
Ten years ago, most companies were still dealing with manually managed infrastructures. Today, many medium-sized businesses still find themselves in the same situation. But that comes at a cost - and I’m feeling it right now.
It’s astonishing how often we chase ghosts simply because our environments differ. This ranges from obvious things like available CPU or RAM to subtler issues like different kernel versions or configuration disparities in applications. It gets especially tricky with external application servers, where configuration files are spread throughout the system and can easily drift apart.
Hi,
In one of my client projects, we reflect on our working methods.
Like most mid-sized projects out there, Scrum is used here too. But we have a few problems: - Sprint goals are never met - Not a sprint goes by without a new task coming in from the side - Estimations are regularly far from reality - Collaboration with other external parties is partially not integrated - … I can certainly think of more examples
For more than a decade, hardly a conference goes by without the topic of microservices. Industry magazines publish numerous articles on the subject, and external consulting firms sell workshops, actively advise on switching to a microservice architecture, and tout its benefits. For many small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), this sounds attractive—what helps the big players so much can’t hurt the smaller ones, right? This is a dangerous misconception.
Overengineering — the use of unnecessarily complex software — costs SMEs not just a lot of money and time, it also deprives them of their most significant competitive edge against large corporations.
Hi,
Have you ever tried closing vim?
You probably know the meme. Even after decades, I still find it funny 😁
But what I haven’t managed to do in all these years is to seriously learn how to use vim. Sure, I press i to enter insert mode and then I can type. And I’ve also learned dd to delete a line. And yes, of course, I was one of the three million viewers who were helped by Stack Overflow
to close vim 😉
Marcus Held