Everyone that works in an office (especially in an open office space) will have to deal with daily distractions, and software developers are no exception. It is well known that distractions are harmful to your productivity but it has a more worst effect on developers.
As software developers, sometimes we forget that the product that we built will be used by other people. We get too caught up in all the fancy tech involved. Too focused on creating a feature that we think is awesome but has minimal value to the end user. We forget […]
Kanban is a loosely defined methodology. It is based more on principles than on instructions.
Agile is a big game changer to how we develop software. Before Agile, most development projects were using some form of waterfall whether they realized it or not. What this means is that they were building software sequentially, going from one phase to the next. So, at this point, you’re […]
There are many ways to organize the workflow of software development. You might have already encountered a few of them, but not realize it. Maybe you do, but don’t know what the name for it is.
Many software developers have no clue about how testing is actually done. They write the code, make sure it builds, and hand it over to testers or QA (Quality Assurance). The testers put the application through a series of test and give the developers a report on the issues and bugs […]
Producing working software involves more than writing code. Most software applications require some form of data storage. And guess what, these data storages do not magically appear; they need to be built, tested, and deployed somewhere.
Most of us want to be more productive. As a result, one of the common mistakes that you might end up making is to multitask. Intuitively it makes sense that if you are doing more than one thing at a time then you will get more done. Sadly, that is […]
Picking a side project does not have to be hard. It’s easy to get stuck trying to figure out the perfect idea and end up not doing anything at all. Some developers associate picking a side project as their dream, which is usually far from reach, and discourage themselves to […]
