Author Archives: davef

Welcome to My YouTube Channel

Posted on April 30, 2020 by davef

I have recently decided to launch a YouTube Channel to complement this Blog. My aim for the channel is to provide some insight into the techniques and practice of Continuous Delivery, explain some of my ideas on Software Engineering, and … Continue reading →

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Q&A from GOTO Copenhagen Session on Reactive Systems

Posted on November 19, 2019 by davef

I recently spoke at GOTO Copenhagen on the topic of Reactive Systems. I will post a link to the video of my talk here when it is published. I didn’t have time to answer all of the questions, so here … Continue reading →

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Continuous Compliance

Posted on September 3, 2019 by davef

I work as an independent consultant advising organizations on how to improve their software development practice. This is a very broad theme. It touches on every aspect of software development from design, coding and testing, to organizational structure, leadership and … Continue reading →

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Autonomy != Anarchy

Posted on August 30, 2019 by davef

I am a long-standing believer in the principles of Agile development. I have been working this way for several decades, before it was referred to as “Agile”. I am friends with several signatories to the original “Agile Manifesto” and with … Continue reading →

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Science and Software Development

Posted on March 4, 2019 by davef

I have been talking about Continuous Delivery being, informally, an application of the scientific method to software development for several years now. I have spoken about it, CD, being a candidate for the beginnings of a genuine engineering discipline for … Continue reading →

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Hygiene Factors for Software Development

Posted on February 12, 2019 by davef

I got into a small debate about software development with someone recently via the comments section to a previous blog-post. During the course of the debate I thought of an analogy to make part of my argument, but I think … Continue reading →

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Perceived Barriers to Trunk Based Development

Posted on November 26, 2018 by davef

A friend of mine has recently started work at a new company. She asked me if I’d answer a few questions from their dev team, so here is the second… Q: “Currently at MarketInvoice we use short-lived feature branches that … Continue reading →

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Pair Programming for Introverts

Posted on November 22, 2018 by davef

A friend of mine has recently started work at a new company. She asked me if I’d answer a few questions from their dev team, so here is the first in a short series of their questions and my answers… … Continue reading →

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CI and the Change Log

Posted on September 11, 2018 by davef

I get in to debates about the relative merits of “Continuous Integration (and Delivery)” vs those of “Feature Branching”  on a fairly regular basis. A common push-back against CI, from the feature-branchers, is “you can’t maintain a clean change-log”. I … Continue reading →

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Three Distinct Mind-sets in TDD

Posted on June 27, 2018 by davef

I have blogged about TDD before. I think that it is one of the most important tools in improving the design of our software, as well as increasing the quality of the systems that we create. TDD provides valuable, fine-grained … Continue reading →

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