Software Development
Articles and websites related to software development and software engineering.
Collection by Matthias Lampe
Mike Cohn
Managing Risk on Agile Projects with the Risk Burndown Chart
4 min read · From 2019 · To see how we explicitly manage risk, we describe a technique originally introduced by John Brothers in "The Agile Times" in 2004: The risk burndown chart.
medium.com
The immutable framework definition makes it impossible to criticize Scrum
~13 min read · May 4th · Scrum is too easy to misinterpret — are we to blame or is it the fault of Scrum?
ZDNet
ASD knows who attacked the APH email system but isn't revealing who
2 min read · May 14th · Attributing attacks is a matter for government, so ASD is keeping quiet on who attacked the Parliament House email system in March.
John Cutler
TBM 19/52: The Analytics ROI Paradox
2 min read · May 13th · For my doodle experiment, check out this post. Contrived thought experiment. You have a choice. You can add two engineers and one designer to your team of one-hundred. Yearly payroll will increase…
medium.com
Sorry Scrum, the Game Might Be Over for You!
~14 min read · Mar 22nd · The market is shifting in a new direction, can Scrum still find its space?
ZDNet
Greg Kroah-Hartman bans University of Minnesota from Linux development for deliberately buggy patches
4 min read · Apr 21st · Some researchers tried to slip bad patches into the Linux kernel as a "test." When they kept trying, Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux kernel maintainer for the stable branch, put an end to their efforts.
InfoQ
Netflix Open Sources ConsoleMe to Manage Permissions and Access on AWS
2 min read · Apr 18th · Netflix has recently open-sourced ConsoleMe, a AWS multi-account management service, and its CLI utility, Weep. The tools provide a central control plane for permissions management across all of AWS…
blog.interfacevision.com
Interface Vision
10 min read · From 2015 · Interface Vision is a group working on a software development platform that can be used without coding.
gotopia.tech
How to Adopt a Seamless Shift-Left Security Process
5 min read · Apr 9th · In today’s world of growing security threats, many organizations are adopting a shift-left security approach, moving security to the start of the application build process — but this puts more…
lafable.com
L.A.F.A.B.L.E
5 min read · Apr 8th · On a LAFABLE project, the Release Choo Choo is set in motion during the Planning Phase. Residing in an ivory tower, positioned well away from the need to dirty his or her hands with code, a LAFABLE…
theregister.com
Ruby off the Rails: Code library yanked over license blunder, sparks chaos for half a million projects
3 min read · Mar 26th · Devs scramble for replacement mimetype data package
ZDNet
Return of Stallman to FSF sparks outrage among open-source and free software leaders
5 min read · Mar 24th · Many open-source and free software people and organizations are upset that The Free Software Foundation has brought its founder, Richard M. Stallman, back to its board of directors.
Mike Cohn
Top 5 Changes in the 2020 Scrum Guide
8 min read · Mar 16th · Get the highlights from the 2020 Scrum Guide and stay up to date with Scrum in 2021.
betterprogramming.pub
Frustrated With JavaScript? You’re Not Alone — These Are the 4 Most Confusing Features
~13 min read · Mar 13th · And how you can avoid going crazy over them
Mike Cohn
Be a Better Scrum Master: 10 Practices to Take to Heart
6 min read · From 2018 · To become a great Scrum Master, remember these 10 short pieces of advice.
MIT Technology Review
What is an “algorithm”? It depends whom you ask
5 min read · Feb 26th · For better accountability, we should shift the focus from the design of these systems to their impact.
