Move meetings to move developers
Here’s the scenario: You cruise in to the office at 8:45, get your coffee, check the reddits, and ignore that email from your parents asking if their computer picked up a virus because McAfee won’t...
View ArticleAgile impressions, 5 iterations in…
I’m assuming from the amount of hype out there that if a development team isn’t using “Agile” right now, they probably feel like the one kid on the block who didn’t have a Nintendo (with the Duck Hunt...
View ArticleTweaking the Agile Calendar
For the first five iterations, the dev team had been following this schedule: Iteration N, Week 1 = Design for iteration N and 2nd week of QA for iteration N-1 Iteration N, Week 2 = Development...
View ArticleSlides on Improving Your Agile Development Process
Dead last, after the headline act, and after Joel Spolsky told everyone to go home, I did a lightning talk at DC’s recent DevDays (A StackOverflow production) on how we have used process metrics from...
View ArticleThe Standing Desk
Dave, My OPOWER colleague switched from a normal office desk & chair situation to a standing desk more than a year ago and ever since, I’d been considering doing the same. For my entire...
View ArticleHeisenberg’s Key Performance Indicators
I was trolling trawling through reddit waiting for a JAR to compile and found this blog post. That blog made a couple claims that had crossed my mind a couple months ago when our engineering director...
View ArticleMaven-izing Google’s Data Client Java Library
OPOWER’s first Innovation Day was a lot of fun. I was waiting about 30 minutes for my primary project (building an AWS machine image for our hudson slave) to complete and I got sucked in to a...
View ArticleHow One Line of Code Can Change the World
From my recent talk at a recruiting event, a very quick Prezi: .prezi-player { width: 550px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; } How One Line of Code Can Change The World on Prezi
View ArticleWhy Homework?
The Discovery Channel spends an entire week every year convincing us how incredibly awesome sharks are. How do they do it? Do they take a mako shark out of the ocean, squeeze it into a suit, and ask...
View ArticleOur Scala DSL for testing our web product
This is actually a fairly old bit of tech for us, but I’ve been reading Martin Fowler’s DSL Book, and thought it might be good to talk about what we’ve done. Our Domain-Specific Language is probably...
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