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Meet Our Summer 2021 Interns
Get to know Kevin, Braden, and Cody—Integrity's talented summer interns! Kevin Childs Post University, Class of 2016 LaunchCode Graduate,...
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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...
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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My experiences as an intern at Black & Veatch and Integrity Inspired
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.
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."
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...
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.
The Definitive, Final, Real, True Definition of an MVP
An MVP is relative to the question you're trying to answer.
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.
The New DDD - Dumbing Down Developers
Software development has inherited a lot from manufacturing practices, for better or worse.
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.
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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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