Posts Tagged ‘Agile’

The Importance of Being There at Conception (of a Feature)

// October 11th, 2009 // No Comments » // Programming, Work

I’ll use a slightly crude example to get across the point of this post. It’s maybe not the best comparison, but bare with me. Instead of “feature” think of “child” in relation to conception.

Let’s say you weren’t there from conception of your child. In fact the first 15 years of the child’s life you missed out on. If you were suddenly brought into the picture, how clean a transition would that be? Would you be able to make up for the lost years? Or have as much impact/bearing in the child’s life as you’d like? It’s a difficult situation. Are you able to connect with the child as well as if you’d been involved since conception?

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Making a Better Developer

// April 7th, 2009 // No Comments » // Programming, Work

I’ve started blogging on Huddle’s blog too, but will keep any articles I write there, linked on this blog.

Making a better developer, an article about how being at Huddle has made me a better developer, and exploring the reasons why.