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Creating vs. Maintaining

If your job as a developer or DBA has been like mine, it’s a constant stream of requests to change something, often without enough information and short deadlines that create a bit of stress. There’s always more work to be … Continue reading

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Simple(r) Coffee

Starbucks has too many order combinations. This article about the challenges for their new CEO notes there are over 170,000 combinations of things customers can order. As someone who has visited a store often and stood behind someone placing an … Continue reading

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Why Would You Do That?

I was listening to someone at Microsoft talk about their product recently. I can’t disclose which one it was, but lots of people use this product and are impacted by changes. The particular thing that caught my attention was that … Continue reading

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Reducing the Cycle Time

There are lots of software development methodologies. This page lists a few, among them waterfall, agile, iterative, rapid, and more. What’s been interesting to me is that the process of deciding what to code and then whether it works doesn’t … Continue reading

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