An Humble Assessment of Myself

Contact jeff@duckcreekconsulting.com602.214.4780 Goal I am a highly experienced Microsoft Business Central (On-prem and Online), and Windows™ browser-based application developer. I have more than 30 years of programming experience and am available on a B2B or C2C basis. (Will consider W2) I seek Senior Business Central and .NET senior developer roles solving business automation and integration […]

How Much Training?

How Much Training?

Previous: The Plan How much training does each unit need? Nobody knows. This isn’t a recipe. But a survey of all the software development teams would hardly find two out of 100 who consider training a priority. They see ceremonies and charts and lists as priorities. I hope you love to train… and drill. I […]

Training Schedules

Training Schedules

Previous: The Plan The software development unit agrees to train and drill together. What is the curricula? What is a good schedule? First, let’s look at the curricula. A well-rounded development team should understand the following: Language(s) IDE (Visual Studio/VS Code) S.O.L.I.D. TDD (including mocking and faking) (refactoring) Dependency injection Network security Internet security Identity […]

The Plan

The Plan

Previous: What’s the Secret Faerie Dust? With everything we’ve done wrong, if we ever want to do software development right, we need a plan. First, a review. With what we know, we stipulate the following: We’ve been doing it all wrong for longer than most in the industry have been alive Management has failed to […]

Software is not the Product

Previous: Something’s Wrong With Developers The root cause of software management failure derives from the manager’s continued attempt – in the face of 50 years’ evidence to the contrary – to manage software developers and software development projects as if they were managing the Model-T assembly line at Ford. In such a simplistic model, two […]