Practices

Continuous Integration is a term/buzzword that seems to have a clear understanding.  Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment on the other hand, seem to get incorrectly interchanged. Continuous Integration Continuously integrate changes into source control in order to test changes through automated builds and unit tests.  This provides developers with early warnings of broken code/merges and allows them to fix problems continuously. Continuous Delivery Some have the opinion that continuous delivery is when you deliver to a user base, such as UAT or QA.  I personally disagree.  Continuous delivery is about making sure your software is always production ready. via Jez… Read More »Continuous Integration vs Continuous Delivery vs Continuous Deployment

Fixed price, fixed scope development contracts are still a very relevant and are not likely going away.  Clients want a to know how much they are going to spend and exactly what they are going to get.  The reality is, iterative development was created because they don’t know (entirely) what they want up front. Waterfall is still primarily used, however the reality is, it’s more of a business decision than a development decision. Same old story… We spend a great deal of time up front gathering business requirements and attempt to create a specification of our interpretations of those requirements. … Read More »Reality of fixed price & fixed scope