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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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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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Travis Dietz
- Aug 8, 2019
- 4 min
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My experiences as an intern at Black & Veatch and Integrity Inspired
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Travis Dietz
- 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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Travis Dietz
- Jul 12, 2019
- 3 min
The Integrity Intern
An overview of my life as an Integrity intern
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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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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 23, 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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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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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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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. Â 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." Â Although I've never really dug SolutionsIQ's...
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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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