In this blog post, I examine Agile team member roles and explain what I see as behaviors, or “anti-patterns,” that are detrimental to the Agile process. It is my goal to avoid a negative tone and, instead, emphasize that these are behaviors that can be changed for the better of the team. However, we can not change these behaviors unless …
I want to discuss some takeaways from my role as a Quality Assurance (QA) Software Developer. My experiences in QA were two-fold: I started as a Software Engineer responsible for QA on a Scrum team and I later had a role as a QA Engineer responsible for implementing automated testing infrastructure. In the latter position, I made sure teams had …
I attained my IT degree (B. S. in Computer Science) 12+ years ago at a traditional midwestern college, so the education was fairly well rounded. Looking back more than a decade later (having gained a not insignificant amount of real-world experience), there are certain bits of information that, since they were lacking in the classroom, left my well-rounded education with …
