We recently talked to one of our customers implementing ElectricCommander, our software development and delivery automation solution, and the improvements this customer has seen with ElectricCommander are truly astounding. The customer (for privacy reasons, we shall not name them here), creates cutting edge software used by millions of web users/consumers around the globe. Their software [Read More →]
Hugely important, mutual respect makes it possible to work together efficiently. Respect yourself, your coworkers, and your customers. Expect the same from everyone on your team, and help those who run into any difficulties with that. Any feedback is of course welcome (I sure hope my team won’t correct me too much). Read the other [Read More →]
Of course, I know and use all the favorite feedback phrases (“My door is always open”, “Let’s have regular one on ones”, etc.) These are all good, but everybody is busy, so sometimes these happen, and sometimes they don’t. I am sure we have all had those pretty useless “Q: So how are things going?, [Read More →]
Team members are empowered to make their own decisions where appropriate and know when to consult. I personally don’t care for micro management (too much work for me), so when choosing members for my team I look for people with a strong sense of personal accountability who drive towards finding the best possible solution. That [Read More →]
In many organizations, there’s too much talk about setting goals and not enough doing it. Everybody needs to clearly understand the overall goal, and what they can do to help move forward with that goal. And let’s be clear… the overarching goal is to allow for my early retirement at a gorgeous beach on some [Read More →]
So, while I was counting and assigning bugs in Jira, I started to wonder… What makes our development team (well… probably any team) successful? Aside from me being an awesome manager dude (with tie-dye t-shirts and all), the obvious answer is: people. Now that we’ve taken care of that platitude, the real question is: How [Read More →]
Michael Dubakov at TargetProcess makes a great philosophical as well as technical case for where the craftsmanship of software development must head in 2011 and beyond, and I love it. Basically, it’s about doing the right things right, and fast. That may sound simple but I agree with Michael, on the top line it shouldn’t [Read More →]
> Run build…, …, …, Still waiting? …? Still waiting? …? Are you STILL waiting for your slow build to complete? > Finally done? Successful? Good! - Why is your build so slow? - Still struggling with management of your complex build dependencies? > Modify some code. Synchronize from version control system. > Run build…, [Read More →]
Electric Cloud proudly announced ElectricAccelerator 6.0 last week. Eric Melski, ElectricAccelerator Architect, gives us a rundown of the major new features: http://blog.melski.net/2011/10/13/whats-new-in-electricaccelerator-6-0/
This is part two of a five part series where we will present five distinct challenges that if left unaddressed will drastically reduce an organization’s ability to gain the benefits promised by a move to Agile development methods. For complex modern applications, a single pass through the software build-test-deploy process can consume a substantial amount [Read More →]
