Following the principles and practices of continuous delivery helps manufacturers provide better software faster. Continuous delivery is all about feedback within seconds, minutes, hours and days. The best way to gain this feedback is to run a continuous delivery pipeline, which enables your development team to work at a constant and fast pace - without sacrificing quality. Continuous delivery is the secret formula for high-performance teams.
In her post The five keys to a successful Google team, Julia Rozovsky summarises the recipe for successful teams: "Who is on a team matters less than how the team members interact, structure their work, and view their contributions.
With Team Topologies, Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais have written a brilliant book how to create a high-performance software development organisation with the best team structure and interaction. Organisations are complex adaptive systems that change as the result of
Welcome to Episode 28 of My Newsletter on Qt Embedded Systems This will be the last episode of my newsletter. From now on, I'll do all my writing on my blog. So, you won't have to
Welcome to Episode 27 of My Newsletter on Qt Embedded Systems The war is back in Europe! In a criminal act, Russia is attacking and invading Ukraine - for the second time in 8 years. My heart goes out to the
I am using TDD to implement a hardware-independent mock QCanBusDevice. We can use MockCanBusDevice in unit, integration and acceptance tests - without access to a hardware CAN bus. A terminal application can also use it in its own process to
Almost all companies I worked with over the last 25 years had an oversupply of non-technical managers and an undersupply of technical experts in leadership positions. These companies build products with less value for the users and take longer
The book Accelerate - Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Nicole Forsgren et al. is an eye opener and game changer for everyone involved in software development. Nicole provides empirical evidence why teams that apply best practices like test
Today, I looked at the data-driven unit tests I had written nearly four weeks ago. It took me a couple of minutes to understand the tests again. Understanding my own tests should have been much easier. Data-driven unit
My favourite business book of 2018 is It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. The reason why people work crazy hours is not that there is [...] more work to be