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Design and Development Clinic Review – April 2019

Design and Development Clinic Review – April 2019

by Chad Michel | Apr 30, 2019 | Leadership, Our Engineering, Your Vision, Your Vision + Our Engineering

Doug Durham and I recently completed another Software Design and Development Clinic. This week-long set of classes is designed to help level up software developers into senior developers. For us leading the classes, the week is always exhausting but they’re still one...
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...
DPL Education – Adding Product Search

DPL Education – Adding Product Search

by Chad Michel | Jun 6, 2018 | Our Engineering, Software Engineering, Your Vision, Your Vision + Our Engineering

Search is an essential part of any e-commerce application. If you don’t believe me, go to amazon.com. How hard is it to find the search box? Pretty easy, right? If search is essential, we need to make it work pretty well in our applications. Our Software Design and...
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...
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