Software Delivery Mallika Gunturu in Software Delivery Metrics that matter for IT organizations on an agile journey Measuring the wrong things is worse than not measuring anything. In this article, Mallika Gunturu explains the right things to... 03 June 2022 17 min read
Richard Morris Alan Cooper: Geek of the Week Alan Cooper helped to debug the most widely-used PC language of the late seventies and early eighties, BASIC-E, and, with... 15 April 2015 14 min read
Seb Rose What is Behaviour Driven (Database) Development? Behaviour Driven Development is not always clearly understood, and the term is particularly unfamiliar in database circles. Seb Rose introduces... 05 March 2015 16 min read
William Brewer IT Compliance and Software Development What is IT Compliance and is it really necessary for contemporary Agile applications to be constrained by the requirements of... 06 February 2015 14 min read
Edward Elliott Improving the Quality of SQL Server Database Connections in the Cloud To access SQL Server from the client, you use TDS protocol over TCP. This is fine over reliable LANs but... 22 September 2014 20 min read
Alex Papadimoulis My month with Release! Alex and his team at Inedo are developing a game - inspired by development strategies like Lean, Agile and DevOps... 16 June 2014 7 min read
Dev Nambi Agile Database Development Agile methodologies work well with database developments only if great care is taken to do things right. It requires good... 03 January 2014 28 min read
Alex Kuznetsov Lessons Learned from Six Years of Agile Database Development Alex Kuznetsov describes the agile principles, techniques and tools that allowed his development team to make frequent database refactoring a... 19 November 2013 26 min read
Richard Morris David Heinemeier Hansson: Geek of the Week Ruby on Rails, the open-source web application framework, grew out of David Heinemeier Hansson's work on Basecamp at 37Signals. It... 07 August 2013 9 min read
Richard Morris Jez Humble: Geek of the Week Jez Humble and David Farley achieved fame through a book that tackled the least glamorous but most intricate part of... 28 September 2011 17 min read
Nick Harrison A Developers’ Guide to Refactoring Databases When Agile meets 'Big Design', the result can be frustration on both sides. Is it possible for database development to... 04 April 2011 15 min read
Matt Stephens Agile Development and ICONIX Software projects fail for all sorts of reasons, although the same reasons crop up over and over again. The ICONIX... 06 April 2006 16 min read