Gang of Four (GoF) Kent Beck Ward Cunningham To some they are the Pied Pipers of the design movement in software architecture and development. They are legend. They are the pinnacle of professional achievement. The GoF defined 23 design patterns that are near gospel, if not alpha and omega of the design encyclopedia. It is fundamental […]
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Agile Agonisties
When professional managers weaseled their way into Agile, I demoted the word to low-case “agile.” Everything I read in the beginning cried out, “professional developers work better without non-technical oversight.” The way the manifesto writers sought to accomplish this was through elimination of the middle manager and inclusion of the “owner,” and the creation of the […]