by Doug Durham | Jun 5, 2020 | Leadership
The countless tragic deaths, most recently of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, and the recent violence we have seen play out have reinforced the need for our society to participate in some difficult conversations about who we are and who we want to be....
by Doug Durham | Mar 21, 2019 | Leadership, Our Engineering, Software Engineering, Your Vision, Your Vision + Our Engineering
Have you ever wrestled with a problem in your mind and then, while trying to explain it to someone else, had an epiphany of how to solve it? This has happened to me on numerous occasions. Or have you ever jumped in to develop some code for a piece of business logic...
by Doug Durham | Mar 21, 2019 | Leadership, Our Engineering, Software Engineering, Your Vision, Your Vision + Our Engineering
In my first post of this series, I discussed how ambiguity and lack of shared understanding between members of a product development team can occur when we rely on unstructured, ad hoc, and abstract communication processes (i.e., conversations and high-level user...
by Doug Durham | Mar 21, 2019 | Leadership, Our Engineering, Software Engineering, Your Vision, Your Vision + Our Engineering
I was recently re-introduced to one of my favorite essays, Why We Should Build Software Like We Build Houses, by Leslie Lamport. Leslie is one of several thought leaders within our industry who I really admire, both for his insights into the nature of software design...
by Doug Durham | May 16, 2018 | Our Engineering, View From The Booth, Your Vision
If you’re like me, you are probably trying to make some sense of the hype (and hysteria?) around blockchain. While the concept of blockchain is fairly approachable, the applications of this technology (beyond the obvious financial transaction ledgers) is not. I...
