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The project manager was obviously a little irritated. "By this stage of the pre-study, we really should have the requirements a little more nailed down than this. That's two new requirements since last week. Or what does everyone think?" he looks around the table,...
Michelle the manager has two small children. She regularly puts in a 45 hour week. Alan the project manager also has two small children. He officially works 80%. The first architect, Steve, has one small child. He officially works 90%. The second architect, Flo, has...
If you were looking to employ someone, what would you say to a candidate like this:highly intelligent, excellent qualifications for the job, 10 years relevant experience, hardworking, ambitious.Sounds good, doesn't it? What if she then added:has 2 children, will not...
My weekend jog through the park was particularly interesting this week. Not just because of the light sprinkling of snow, bright sun and freezing temperatures. I had to watch my footing every time I heard myself interrupt Geoff or forget someone's name. Yes, I was on...
This week I was finally invited to the architect forum meeting. Ten more or less geeky men, and me. It's funny, I don't usually think about the gender imbalance in the software industry much. On this occasion though, I felt distinctly uncomfortable. They all seemed to...
The full programme for SDC2009 in March will be published in about a week's time, but I can already tell it will be a great event. The call for papers is now closed, and the website has been updated with photos of all the booked speakers. With only one day of talks,...
The second official meeting of the Gothenburg Python User Group was last night. Eight of us turned up, despite my writing the wrong address on my meeting invite. (It is Norra Ågatan 10A, not 6A - sorry!)Anyway, in the first part of the meeting Jacob Hallen explained...
What is the quality of this codebase on a scale of 0 - 100? Zero means "perfectly designed, clean code" and 100 means "total spaghetti, impossble to make changes".Without hesitation, Andreas answered. "70".Andreas was standing at the whiteboard, sketching a timeline...
My cousin held out the keys to his flashy looking sportscar and said “Do me a favour. If you crash into something with my car and it's nearly written off, but not quite. Please back up then hit it again, harder, until it really is written off”. I laughed nervously....
For those of you who read Swedish, I have a new post up on jsolutions.se. The gist of it is that I usually read infoq to find out what is going on in the world, and I've just realized how biased it is compared with other Java news sources.
Hi – I´m Emily!
I am an independent consultant with Bache Consulting and chair of the Samman Technical Coaching Society. As a technical coach I work with software development organizations who want to get better at the technical practices needed to be agile, including Test-Driven Development, Refactoring and Incremental Design. I live in Gothenburg, Sweden, although I am originally from the UK. I’ve written two books: “Technical Agile Coaching with the Samman method” and “The Coding Dojo Handbook”. I teach for both O’Reilly and Pluralsight. I’m married to Geoff Bache, creator of TextTest.
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