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The Danger of Incomplete Pictures, Part 3: Framework for Structured Critical Thinking

The Danger of Incomplete Pictures, Part 3: Framework for Structured Critical Thinking

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...
The Danger of Incomplete Pictures, Part 2: Story/Task Decomposition and Estimation as Design

The Danger of Incomplete Pictures, Part 2: Story/Task Decomposition and Estimation as Design

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...
The Danger of Incomplete Pictures, Part 1

The Danger of Incomplete Pictures, Part 1

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...
Making Sense of Blockchain

Making Sense of Blockchain

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...
Agile Is Not A Silver Bullet, Part 2

Agile Is Not A Silver Bullet, Part 2

by Doug Durham | Nov 15, 2017 | Our Engineering, Software Engineering

In my first post, I wrote about the responsibilities, goals, and struggles that development teams are facing today. In this post, I am covering our experiences and how we must take a bigger picture look at how we’re working in a world of constantly changing...
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