No, QA is not your designated tester
No, QA is not your designated tester. “QA” is a process, not a role: its real job is to help the team grow.
Articles tagged “Organization”
Measuring Software Quality: Don’t Fight the Wrong Battle
Measure an outcome rather than an output. This way, you empower your teams and align them with your company’s goals.
Software quality is too important to be left to your CTO (or the art of shooting yourself in the foot)
Producing high-quality software involves organizational aspects that go beyond technology and can undermine the CTO’s efforts.
Bugs: The Developer, an All-Too-Easy Scapegoat
It’s easy to blame developers. But bugs also stem from design, organization, and culture.
5 Tips for Hiring Tech Professionals
Here are a few pieces of advice, drawn from my experience working with companies, that I wish I’d had back when I was a manager.
I’m the developer, and you’re the quality guy
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and your Quality Department is no exception: it’s impossible to distinguish between “doing” and “doing better.”
IT Darwin Awards
8 ideas that are frankly ridiculous and yet so widespread when it comes to software development… Do yourself a favor: read this!
You build it, you run it
This phrase, a DevOps mantra, is rooted in common sense. Yet the organization sometimes resists its implementation. CEOs, lay the groundwork.
Bounded Contexts 101
2 common mistakes when splitting a system into Bounded Contexts: splitting by technical layer and splitting by entity. Think action verbs!
Oh, what a beautiful in-house framework!
If you’re thinking about creating a custom framework, think twice: some have tried it, and they’ve had their share of problems!
Rest In Peace
Separating the IT function from the business units it serves is a fundamental mistake, because IT is viewed solely through the lens of its cost.
No-code: the Excel of the modern age
No-code and low-code tools have their place, provided their use is properly managed to avoid unpleasant surprises (shadow IT).
DevOps: The Big Misunderstanding
As DevOps has spread, it has strayed from its original spirit, sometimes to the point of meaning the opposite. Let’s set the record straight.
