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Sprint Burndown Charts Gone Wrong The work went somewhere… You can learn a lot about a team from their sprint burndown chart. If you know how to read it. After years…

Organize CI/CD chaos and make the invisible visible with a Maturity Matrix Photo by Marvin Meyer on Unsplash I’m really excited to be sharing this technique with you. Maturity Matrix’s are something…

The 2 Minute Noodle Rule I cringe whenever I hear a programmer say that a code fix will only take “2 minutes”. Because I know they’re setting themselves up for disappointment….

Blockchain just did something weird to programming The Etherium project has made a new programming language for smart contracts called Vyper and the way it was designed says something really…

Source: http://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/michael-jordan-63-points-1986-playoffs/ I love this photo, but probably not for the reason you would think. It’s from the 1986 NBA playoffs where Michael Jordan made history by scoring a record…

Lying with charts is pretty easy Charts are important because we use them for important things. They’re how we run businesses, manage finances, discuss societal issues, and debate politics. But it’s…

Creating a code quality culture with SonarQube Code quality matters. Here at Imdex we have a lot of cool stuff we want to build so we don’t have time to…

Our Friday Code Quality Tradition Here at Imdex we have a weekly tradition thats had a huge impact on our software team. Every Friday afternoon Luke Grootveld (our Cloud Dev…

So what’s a good unit test look like? Here at Imdex, we write a lot of automated tests. A lot. Having a high quality suite of automated tests is part of…

Kotlin in the real world A few weeks ago we started a new Android app here at Imdex. We spent quite a while deciding whether to try the new programming language…