You think that Arnold and Sylvester movie careers were head to head? Let me tell you the story of what happened before that. <Dissolve Effect> Arnold and Sylvester had a struggling software development business. Arnold wanted better code design. Because he was after better design, he chose TDD, with all the design goodness it brings.
Uncle Bob Martin recently blogged about the hordes of untrained developers coming into the industry, which eventually leads to some huge software disasters. James Bach wrote about the failures of HealthCare.gov that stemmed from incompetence in software management. These are very good articles, that make you think: Should software professionals (developers, testers, managers) be regulated?
A recent comment on (the now legacy) “4 signs that agile is declining”: “Let me be clear: Every single failing or failed project I have seen in the last 35 years, regardless of development process, has had self-inflicted mortal wounds from execrable language skills and the resulting breakdown of communication. People nod their heads up
There are many agile conferences these days. Many of them are not about what we used to call “agile” anymore. In fact, a friend pointed out when I mentioned a TDD session from an agile conference, saying: Really? An agile presentation with code? Most of the topics today are moving towards lean, kanban, leadership and
