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

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

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

An overview of my life as an Integrity intern

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

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."

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 decade of your life. ...

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 specialty. Management refuse...

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

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 deadlines."  Usually, the est...

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 thoughts from your fr...

One way to ensure our software quality, technical skill, and throughput continues to improve is through mentoring. At Integrity Inspired Solutions, we have c...