Coding is Like Baking (and Cooking)

Three factors affecting your agility Note: this post originally appeared here https://www.praqma.com/stories/coding-is-like-baking/ Let’s talk about cakes and baking. It’s similar to making software. No really! How quickly you can bake a fantastic cake depends on...

Effective Technical Agile Coaching

Note: this article was first published on Praqma’s website Experiences Pairing with Llewellyn Falco How does a Technical Agile Coach improve work in a development team? When Llewellyn Falco asked me to pair with him at a client I jumped at the chance to see how...

How can teams collaborate without Pull Requests?

This post was originally published on Praqma’s blog   A short story about Pre-tested Integration   Three programmers   Continuous Integration and Code Review are strongly correlated with success. Many use Pull Requests for code review, but for co-located teams...

Pre-tested Integration: Back to the basis of CI

This post was originally published on Praqma’s blog Continuous Integration is now synonymous with having a server set up to build and test any change submitted to a central repository. But this isn’t the only way, or even how CI used to work. What did we do...