When we build software in an Agile process correctly, we discover that it is actually more efficient and quicker to do high-quality work than in a traditional Waterfall process. This is because a...

I think a lot of companies believe that Agile software development is merely a process and that somehow software developers know how to use. But in my experience that is simply not true.  The way we...

I’ve heard a lot of people say that because they are using Agile or Scrum that they don’t need to do design or write documentation—or even think. Nothing is further from the truth!  I wrote a post...

If ever there was a convoluted, misunderstood term in software development, it’s the word “quality.” To some people, quality in software is software that does the right thing. Others...

The actor-producer Paul Reiser once said that producing is about figuring out what needs to be done and doing it. I think this also makes a good job description for software developers. Programmers...

I often ask attendees of my classes what makes a good design or what makes a design not good. We can all recognize some aspect of a design or implementation in software as being good or not but it can...

ChatGPT is a large-language model, a particular kind of AI program. Large-language models (LLMs) are not intelligent; they don’t learn and grow based on user interactions but learn through training. ...