Software Development

Four Principles About Software Development Team Speed Every Tech Leader Should Know

Discover four crucial principles to accelerate your software development team's delivery speed.

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.

#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.”

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.

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.

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?

#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.

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...

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

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

The Integrity Intern

An overview of my life as an Integrity intern

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...

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."

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.

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.