Vishal BardoloiSaccadesHave you watched Avdi Grimm’s keynote talk “The Soul of Software”?Mar 30, 2018Mar 30, 2018
Vishal BardoloiScope Didn’t Change; Understanding GrewThe end result of most Waterfall-style projects looks like this:Mar 19, 2018Mar 19, 2018
Vishal BardoloiThe ‘Safe Hammer’ Anti-patternOnce there was a carpenter who thought his apprentices weren’t smart enough to use hammers properly. So even though he’d buy the best tools…Mar 19, 2018Mar 19, 2018
Vishal Bardoloi“Time to First Commit” as a metricFor a while now, I’ve tracked my time-to-first-commit on each new client project. i.e. how long is the time gap between starting on the…Feb 2, 2018Feb 2, 2018
Vishal BardoloiBeing AgileNote: This is the 3rd and final post in a series about how to truly adopt agility. The first post defined the problem pattern, the second…Jan 14, 2018Jan 14, 2018
Vishal BardoloiOne Level DeeperNote: This is the 2nd post in a series about how to truly adopt agility. The first post defined the problem pattern.Jan 13, 2018Jan 13, 2018
Vishal BardoloiThe Idea Adoption LifecycleOur industry is not short on great ideas. Agile, TDD, CI/CD, Lean, XP, Pair programming, DevOps are all great ideas.Jan 12, 2018Jan 12, 2018
Vishal BardoloiThe WobbleJust coming back from the holiday season? Got those back-to-work blues and wishing you had better work-life balance?Jan 7, 2018Jan 7, 2018
Vishal BardoloiWhen Life Interferes with WorkI just attended a 1-hour video conference with an Executive Principal at my company, while cradling my newborn infant in my lap, at home…Dec 7, 2017Dec 7, 2017
Vishal BardoloiKent Beck on Partitioning ComplexitySome years ago, I heard Kent Beck at a conference say that he felt tremendous impostor syndrome when he started working at Facebook.Dec 1, 2017Dec 1, 2017