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    6 Things Wrong with the Software Development Industry
    Phil Ledgerwood
    • Apr 7
    • 6 min

    6 Things Wrong with the Software Development Industry

    Dysfunctions of software development negatively affect the lives of those building it as well as the quality of the product.
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    #CodeIsCommunication: Why Naming Matters
    Noah Rhee
    • Feb 24
    • 3 min

    #CodeIsCommunication: Why Naming Matters

    There is a reason why this saying exists: “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.”
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    Save Time and Money By Repeating Back What You Hear
    Noah Rhee
    • Feb 10
    • 3 min

    Save Time and Money By Repeating Back What You Hear

    Few things are more frustrating than wasting time and money working on the wrong thing, especially when it comes to software development.
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    The Hidden Costs of Offshoring Your Software Development
    Phil Ledgerwood
    • Feb 3
    • 6 min

    The Hidden Costs of Offshoring Your Software Development

    When it comes to offshoring, you may find there are several other costs hiding in that hourly rate difference.
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    Bitten by Assumptions? Got Analysis Paralysis? Get Agile
    Noah Rhee
    • Jan 13
    • 2 min

    Bitten by Assumptions? Got Analysis Paralysis? Get Agile

    How is Agile supposed to help us with the problem of having to make so many weighty assumptions in software development?
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    #CodeIsCommunication: The Value of Constrained Choices in Code
    Noah Rhee
    • Dec 9, 2021
    • 3 min

    #CodeIsCommunication: The Value of Constrained Choices in Code

    Building software is expensive. But the biggest cost is not writing the new code—it’s understanding the existing code.
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    There Are No RESTful Urls
    Phil Ledgerwood
    • 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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    The Integrity Intern
    Travis Dietz
    • 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
    Travis Dietz
    • 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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    Agile Lessons from Martial Arts
    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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    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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    What is a Story Point?
    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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    The New DDD - Dumbing Down Developers
    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.
    72 views0 comments
    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.
    36 views0 comments
    Domain Anemia
    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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    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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    How to Increase Velocity
    Phil Ledgerwood
    • Mar 17, 2015
    • 3 min

    How to Increase Velocity

    Thought I’d pick up a little of that sweet, sweet physics traffic with that title.  FYI, you can increase your change in position or...
    18 views0 comments
    It's Not a Question of Speed
    Phil Ledgerwood
    • Nov 26, 2014
    • 3 min

    It's Not a Question of Speed

    Speed is something of a software development holy grail.  Developer teams want to know how to go faster.  Managers of developer teams...
    13 views0 comments
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