Forewarned is forearmed for this post, I will admit that this evening has been largely filled with music of a more psychedelic nature. You can blame Jefferson Airplane for this, but if you stick with me for the journey you will learn the connection between fish, extreme sports and technology processes with nary a reference to Douglas Adams (so long and thanks for all the fish).
Continue reading “Agile Errors – Sashimi and Skateboards”
I’m involved in quite a few interviews as InvoiceFair grows its technical team.
Interviews are always interesting; you get a sense of what’s going on with the market, but also what people understand of the software development processes that operate within their own organisation and the subject of software development processes in general.
Continue reading “Architecture and Agile”
As we’re growing our development team in InvoiceFair I’ve gone through a process of budget approval for hiring people. The process is pretty lightweight, but in an effort to be as thorough as possible, I put together an org chart, some lightweight role descriptions and so on.
To be honest it was all going well, until we got to the DevOps role…
What is this thing? What’s it going to do for us and most importantly, do we need it right now?
Hmmm. Good questions.
Continue reading “DevOps – How Do I Explain This to the Business?”
“What if I told you we were putting a team together?”
Tony Stark aka Iron Man
Continue reading “The High Performance Team”“I’m putting together a team, people with special abilities…”
Bruce Wayne aka Batman
At InvoiceFair we’ve adopted Go as our primary development language. How did we choose it and what alternatives did we consider? All is revealed here.
Bows and Arrows 