by Natasha Carlyon | Jun 6, 2018 | Agile, Quality code
Software design is hard. Although getting the software to work is essential, it is also important to keep in mind the design of the software. Rules The four rules of simple design is an excellent guide to designing software. Kent Beck discovered the rules while he was...
by Natasha Carlyon | Mar 27, 2018 | Agile, Growth, Learning
This is the conclusion of my Retrospectives series. Set the Stage Gather Information/Generate Insight Take Action(the current blog post) Take Action After generating insights, the team works together to create a list of actions items. This sounds simple enough;...
by Natasha Carlyon | Mar 6, 2018 | Agile, Growth
This is part two of my Retrospectives series. Set the Stage Gather Information/Generate Insight(the current blog post) Take Action Gather Information This is possibly the most diverse step in the retrospective. There’re so many different ways to gather...
by Natasha Carlyon | Feb 11, 2018 | Agile, Growth, Learning
Retrospective comes from the latin word ‘Retrospectare’, which means to look back. In the software development world, retrospective refers to a team meeting together at regular intervals to reflect on past work, usually just a week or two. I’m a deep...
by Natasha Carlyon | Jan 14, 2018 | Quality code
I will be discussing Encapsulation for the finale, or part four, of my Object Oriented Programming series: Abstraction Inheritance Polymorphism Encapsulation – Current Post Encapsulation John Mitchell has an excellent definition of encapsulation: “A...
