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Oct 16, 2020
6 min

There Are No RESTful Urls

Imagine that you're creating a REST API for a product catalog service, and you're building the endpoint to view a product by id. Which...

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Are You Cooking Your Pears Correctly? - On Following Agile Recipes

Phil Ledgerwood

Nov 11, 2019
3 min

Are You Cooking Your Pears Correctly? - On Following Agile Recipes

The point of following a recipe isn't to follow a recipe.

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Logan George

Aug 8, 2019
4 min

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My experiences as an intern at Black & Veatch and Integrity Inspired

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Logan George

Jul 26, 2019
3 min

My Quest to KCDC

My experience at the Kansas City Developer Conference, in the form of a literary quest. The 2nd blog post in the Intern series.

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Logan George

Jul 12, 2019
3 min

The Integrity Intern

An overview of my life as an Integrity intern

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Product Ideation to MVP - How to start software planning

Ryan Langton

Jun 20, 2019
5 min

Product Ideation to MVP - How to start software planning

This past week we kicked off a new software project at Integrity Inspired Solutions, called Vegan Beacon. This will be an app that maps...

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Phil Ledgerwood

May 6, 2019
6 min

Agile Lessons from Martial Arts

Well, as one of my silat teachers says, "The best way to fight more than one guy is to fight one guy at a time."

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Travis Dietz

Apr 24, 2019
3 min

Where Work and Passion Collide

Statistically most of us will spend roughly 90,000 hours of our lives at work. That's 3,750 days, 535 weeks, 123 months, or more than a...

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Is Scrum Better Than Kanban for Product Development?

Phil Ledgerwood

Apr 16, 2019
5 min

Is Scrum Better Than Kanban for Product Development?

To understand why anyone would say this, you have to understand the problem that gave rise to it in the first place.

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Phil Ledgerwood

Apr 8, 2019
5 min

What is a Story Point?

If you are going to use story points, let's get on the same page about what story points are and how they're intended to be used.

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The Definitive, Final, Real, True Definition of an MVP

Phil Ledgerwood

Mar 20, 2019
6 min

The Definitive, Final, Real, True Definition of an MVP

An MVP is relative to the question you're trying to answer.

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Phil Ledgerwood

Jan 20, 2019
8 min

Company Core Values: Love

We put it at the top of the list, and I think I'd drop every other core value we had in order to keep that one front and center.

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Phil Ledgerwood

Nov 30, 2016
7 min

The New DDD - Dumbing Down Developers

Software development has inherited a lot from manufacturing practices, for better or worse.

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The Dangers of Designing the Database First

Phil Ledgerwood

Sep 9, 2016
7 min

The Dangers of Designing the Database First

Here's the core issue, however: tabular data is woefully inadequate to model the vast majority of business operations.

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Phil Ledgerwood

Jun 3, 2016
3 min

Domain Anemia

I want you to think for a minute about your application's domain model - specifically, the domain objects. I have a question for you:...

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Phil Ledgerwood

Jan 29, 2016
4 min

I Think It Really Wants Out

Recently, Charlie Rudd of SolutionsIQ posted an article entitled "The Third Wave of Agile." Although I've never really dug SolutionsIQ's...

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The (Healthy) Software Development Factory

Travis Dietz

Dec 11, 2015
3 min

The (Healthy) Software Development Factory

A common issue I’ve seen in the trenches with teams is an unwillingness to cross over lines to do work outside of their specific...

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Travis Dietz

Nov 30, 2015
2 min

Squirrel Series - Part III

Communication is such a complex and challenging thing to master and those who have are probably the best in whatever industry they are...

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Phil Ledgerwood

Sep 21, 2015
3 min

Should All Deadlines Be Killed?

For several years now, I have been on a crusade against deadlines that have no business value, or as I like to call them, "most...

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Travis Dietz

Jun 29, 2015
4 min

Squirrel Series Part II

Welcome back to Part II of our Squirrel Series...for those with the attention span of a...well a squirrel. Join us for some not so deep...

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