Tag Archives: Science in development

Welcome to My YouTube Channel

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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The Illusion of Rigor (Superstition in software development) – Part 1

When I was a software consultant I got to see a wide of software projects in a wide variety of different organizations. My subjective experience is that most software projects in most organizations get it quite badly wrong most of … Continue reading

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Hypothesis based development

I think that the reason that agile development works is because it is the application of the scientific method to software development. A fundamental aspect of that is the importance of forming a hypothesis before you start so that you … Continue reading

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