Businesses spent over a trillion dollars on enterprise software and IT services last year, with a healthy forecasted growth fueling an otherwise flat IT market. You might expect this investment would be producing better and better software, but every day you probably experience the reverse. …

People sometimes describe DevOps as a factory. It’s a good analogy. Like a factory, code goes go in one end of the DevOps line. Finished software comes out the other. I’d take the idea one step further. …

‍Maybe you know someone like my friend Pete. He grew up in a small town in Ohio dreaming of a big tech career. By working hard, he was able to study computer science at Northwestern, move to California and become a successful Silicon Valley executive. It’s a classic American success…

Making good software isn’t hard. But in the race to generate more revenue, businesses sometimes lose sight of what’s important. In fact, sticking to a few basic rules can help you grow your bottom line. In this three-part series, I explain how the golden rules of software development will help…

Humans are tool-making creatures. Technology is what we’re supposed to be good at. So why is so much of the software we use every day so bad? You know what I’m talking about: Help boxes that don’t help, buttons that don’t seem to do anything and features hidden in sub-menus…

‍ It’s easy to understand how Danny became a senior developer. His code was fast and elegant, and after four years in the company, he understood the product well. But there was a problem. His team was no longer hitting scheduled milestones, and attrition was high. …

Most Agile developers have worked in both real Agile environments and in the more traditional set-ups dressed up in Agile ceremonies. …

So your development team wants to start using DevOps, but the ops team has dug in its heels, the infrastructure team is throwing up roadblocks left and right, and management is oblivious to the whole disagreement? Sounds about right. Most organizations are DevOps-resistant by nature. Even if they say they…

Once I found an internal system that was logging usernames and passwords in plain text In trying to educate the client about the right way, I used the term “best practice.” The customer heard “best practice” and treated it as a matter of opinion. I had to explain the danger…