It’s the Journey, Not the Destination

Once an organization transitions from a start-up to a more mature business, it often finds that its software development velocity stalls when it tries to add new features or attempts to refactor problematic code. This is because without solid, automated tests developers don’t know if they’ve broken existing behavior. Management then tries to ameliorate the …

Evaluating an Existing Tech Project

A dilemma often faced by professional programmers is whether to work with what they have, or start fresh when inheriting others’ code. They say it’s easier to write code than to read it (especially other people’s code). Why is this? Unless the code is perfectly readable, it’s challenging to put yourself in someone else’s head. …