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...

Testing with Swedish Personal Numbers

Fictitious people that might get real – and sue you! Finding realistic data for testing is often a headache, and a good strategy is often to fabricate it. But what if your randomly generated data turns out to belong to a real person? What if they complain and...

Proportion of Women Programmers

As a woman programmer, I have noticed there is something of a gender imbalance in my profession. It’s an issue that’s interested me for a while, not least because people often ask me about what we can do to improve the situation. For myself, I enjoy...