Last week I was in Oslo to attend the NDC conference. I cannot really believe that this was already the 10th NDC Oslo I attended. With 2’600 attendees it was the biggest NDC event ever, but at least for me not the best. Practical Clean Architecture workshop with Jason Taylor I started my NDC …
Before you can assign work items to a sprint (or an iteration) in Azure DevOps, someone needs to create those sprints. That boring task is a great candidate for delegation. Unfortunately, the only role that can do this work by default is the project administrator. Before you turn everyone into a project administrator, let me …
Developers spend a lot more time on reading code than writing it. Therefore, if we want to get more effective, we must take a deep look at the reading part. In this Workshop Mark Seemann uses a set of heuristics to address the common obstacles developers face when it comes to understanding code. Keep in …
One of the most important ideas of agile software development is for me the short feedback cycle. Instead of working for weeks or even months at a problem on our own, we try to get feedback as fast as we can. That not only works with user stories; we can apply this idea to every …
Azure DevOps allows you to add multiple Git repositories to the same project. That allows you to set the permissions only once and organise your code as you like. Sooner than later, you try to add a second backlog and that is where things get complicated. This feature is well hidden and easy to overlook. …
Earlier this year I read the book The Mikado Method by Ola Ellnestam and Daniel Brolund. Whenever someone describes their process as a “pragmatic, straightforward, and empirical method to plan and perform non-trivial technical improvements on an existing software system” I get sceptical. Too many books claim that and deliver nothing. But this process is …
We all wanted to be in Norway for NDC Oslo 2020, but Covid-19 made that impossible. As with most other conferences in 2020, there was no way to make this an in-person event. The NDC crew and Dylan Beattie did their best to create the typical NDC feeling at an online-only conference. I was surprised …
It is the time of the year where most new year’s resolutions are already forgotten. Should you still want to learn new things I have a great podcast for your. It is not about the shiny new frameworks, instead it will help you to improve your existing applications. The podcast Legacy Code Rocks! hosted by …
NDC Oslo keeps growing. This year you could choose from 19 pre-conference workshops and attend one of 10 parallel tracks throughout the 3 days of the conference. The mix of well-established speakers and newcomers was very interesting and nearly 2500 attendees found their way to the Oslo Spektrum. My biggest challenge this year was to …
Continuous Integration is a well-established practice. With every commit you build your whole application and run all tests. This helps you to find integration problems right then and spares you the dreadful integration hell in the night before a release. Azure DevOps has a nice little option to enable Continuous Integration for a specific branch. …