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Estimation and points is one of those topics where if I get into it I can rant/talk/discuss for hours. People who I work with no doubt know my views on how much ‘value’ I think estimation brings so I thought I would share my views with everyone...

Over the last few weeks I’ve been spending time looking at Agile best practices and reviewing some of the things I have been learning about implementing ‘Lean’. Often people look just at the standard things development teams do such...

Today for me has been a day of change, I decided that my current development environment was holding me back so I decided to look at updating my development stack.
The first thing I decided to do was to ditch Macports in favour of Homebrew.
I’d been using macports for the last year or so and whilst i was generally happy with it, I’d started using Homebrew at work and I liked the much simpler way of install packages and the less reliance on running things using ‘sudo&rsquo...

Every now and again I feel its right to look backwards as well as forwards to see just how much things have changed from when I first started writing code back in the glory days of 1993. I’ve not had to think about it in a very long time but last...