How Agile is your Architecture?

One of the cornerstones of the Agile Manifesto is Responding to change over following a plan.  Most of the time, we see this parable being applied to teams of software developers, but not always to the software itself.  After a certain point, the software’s architecture becomes rigid and inflexible, and only allows for minute changes [...]

Developers who become Managers

Rob Walling had an amazing post where he described his experiences and frustrations during his career when moving  from senior software development roles into management roles. Much of Rob’s frustrations stemmed from losing the creative satisfaction one gets from writing code despite gaining the money, power, and respect generally associated with higher level management roles. This [...]