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 [...]

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 out from [...]