Musings of a Software Development Manager

Hudson has a Continuous Integration Plugin game that gives you points for successful builds, adding tests, removing TODOs, etc. As a plugin it started out simple, but now allows you to get points based on:

Doing a successful build.
Adding new successful tests.
Fixing PMD, FindBugs, or Checkstyle warnings.
Fixing a compiler warning.
Fixing a TODO.

Around a year ago [...]

Long ago Scott Ambler discussed the idea of a specializing generalist, an element critical for Agile teams. Stumbling across the definition of a generalist who has developed some deep skills in certain areas, but broad skills in a variety of functions felt natural. As a very old web developer I long ago spread [...]