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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

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Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They work hard to keep their house in order at all times, and there are strict rules and guidelines in place that prevent engineers and teams from doing things their own way.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

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I thought a good place to start was with the origins of the idea that "software design" should be considered a discipline in its own right, on par with computer science, software engineering, and computer programming. But what about Commodity? August 9, 2009 10:02 AM Mike said. With product debt, your users pay the interest.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

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For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. Some questions have a natural escalation path (like working through the standard operations on a linked-list) and others require some more creativity. And some just write the assembly down like its a perfectly normal question.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous integration step-by-step

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Maybe operations has changed the OS configuration in production in a way that is incompatible with some developers change. In many traditional software organizations, branches can be extremely long-lived, and integrations can take weeks or months. March 26, 2010 8:42 AM ankur aggarwal said. Take a look and let me know what you think.