Thinking Sideways | A collection of my thoughts on various topics in professional software development. Focus topics are clean code, automated tests, anti-patterns, object orientation and scalable team organization.

Posts

May 2, 2021
Stop the Decline First
May 1, 2020
The Power of Incentives
Dec 15, 2019
Seven Signs That Something Is Wrong With Your Scrum
Oct 7, 2019
Look Upstream For The Cause Of Your Problems
Sep 8, 2019
The Futile Quest for True Object-Orientation
Jun 29, 2019
The Leader-to-Worker-Ratio
May 22, 2019
Testing vs. Quality
May 3, 2019
Why Your Developers Don't Write Automated Tests
Mar 24, 2019
Choose Simple Solutions Over Flexible Ones
Mar 15, 2019
It Doesn't Matter When You Write Your Tests
Mar 1, 2019
The Developer Skill Matrix
Feb 10, 2019
Book Review: Elegant Objects by Yegor Bugayenko
Jan 22, 2019
Clean Code in Real Life
Jan 11, 2019
What's Your Expected User Competency?
Jan 3, 2019
The Trouble with Knowledge Transfers