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Archive for July, 2009

Software Execs: Do You Have Toxic Code Assets?

Simple “Clean Code” Metrics for C-Level Execs A recent Twitter thread I was involved in goes something like this. Someone claimed that  software managers and executives should not have to care whether their developers are test-driving Clean Code.  They should be able to presume that their developers are always courageous, disciplined, and skillful enough to [...]

Hiring Testers Who Can Code: An Exercise

Background: Scrummerfall Brad Wilson and others have blogged about a persistent “scrummerfall” pattern in agile transformations wherein, despite good-faith efforts on the part of teams to blast away cube walls, silos, and artificial role divisions, we still have programmers and testers working in phases. I’ve seen this repeatedly myself. Each little iteration is (at best) a [...]