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In grooming and backlog refinement in software we find ourselves breaking functionality into epics, which then have many stories, and - from here I like to break stories explicitly into behaviors, or at least acceptance criteria. With stories classified into epics you may be able to, upon completion, see the larger business functionality, and where…| blog.wilcoxd.com
Introduction We’re all familiar with the idea of technical debt in software, where the velocity of development is hampered by code not being ideally suited for the task at hand. Maybe the task changed, maybe an engineer had an idea that didn’t turn out so well, maybe the data model forced an unnatural shape. for more on technical debt O’reilly has…| blog.wilcoxd.com
Introduction In my previous blog article I said: This is the topic of a future blog post: roads and feature capacity of microservice herds. Which will be a much easier conversation to have now that we understand microservices, cliques, herds, products, teams, and how enterprises mash those concepts up in different ways. Before that we need to…| blog.wilcoxd.com
This weekend I took the time to play with Bitbucket Pipelines, a new feature from Bitbucket. Often, my goal with my setup is “get something simple up and running simply”. This is why I like hosting on Bitbucket (free private repositories), and the pipeline’s feature now lets me get a simple CI pipeline up, without involving extra tools. With a…| blog.wilcoxd.com
I’m going to start a new practice. Before I even do an estimate for a client, I’m going to ask: Which is more important to you: having it done by a certain date, or having all your features 100% complete? Two extremes: I’m dealing with a client right now that has a very firm, but internal, sense of when they want my current project done at. I’ve…| blog.wilcoxd.com