The Obsession with Customer Service
When “users” are mistreated by a company in a monopoly position, there’s a real opportunity to start a competing business.
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Enabling Change: A Type of Engagement for Every Situation
Even though every engagement is unique, it’s still possible to identify types, starting with the “firefighter” engagement: “Fire! Help!”
12 Creative Ways to Screw Up Your Sprints
“It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from the mistakes of others.” Warren Buffett talks about investing; I talk about sprints.
Why I Write
I’ve been writing every week for over two years now. A chance to reflect on what truly motivates me, beyond the simple pleasure of sharing my experience.
Command-Query Responsibility Segregation
CQRS is based on the idea of distinguishing between write and read models when operations are highly asymmetric. Use sparingly.
100% Code Coverage: The Never-Ending Race
This metric isn’t very useful if you don’t know what lies behind it… It does tell you something, however, mainly when it’s low!
Waterfall: A Recipe for Failure
Sequential methodologies do not work for business software, primarily because of tunnel vision. Is there an alternative? Agile.
50 shades of tests
Not all tests fit into a single test pyramid. Several aspects must be considered: purpose, granularity, and assertion methods.
An architecture that leaves doors open
“The job of an architect is to build a structure that allows decisions to be delayed as long as possible”: 5 examples illustrating Uncle Bob’s point.
End-to-end tests: how to get off on the right foot
End-to-end tests should be used sparingly, as they are costly to write (Page Model) and costly to run. Here’s how to proceed.
The Retrospective: Agile’s DNA
If you had to keep just one thing from Agile, keep the retrospective. As a forum for continuous improvement, it paves the way for problem-solving.
An X student who writes code
For me, being a Polytechnique graduate meant an obligation to hold high-level positions, and part of me aspired to that out of a need for recognition.
Product: when you get attached to your baby
We take care of a product, we help it grow, we tend to it day after day just as we care for a baby. We become attached to it, and that’s perfectly fine.
Markup, rip-off: what if we rethought how intermediaries are compensated?
The intermediary delivers their full value at contract signing, not on every day of the assignment. Their compensation should therefore be a flat fee.
Coach or consultant?
While a consultant provides specific answers, a coach helps their client find their own answers. These are different yet complementary approaches.
Architecture Decision Record
ADR helps streamline a team’s architectural decisions and prevents them from being constantly called into question.
“If you want to [program] better, stop [programming] for two years”
In our eagerness to master our craft, we sometimes come to view technology as an end in itself. Yet it is merely a means. A means to what end?
Don’t write code that guesses the future
Avoid over-anticipating: don’t lay the groundwork for future features; they remain hypothetical. Instead, write code that can evolve.
IT services firms: parasites of the IT industry
Few IT services firms possess true expertise. The majority sell precarious employment conditions to end clients, which suits them just fine.
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