Chris Nielsen

Sprint Burndown Charts Gone Wrong

You can learn a lot about a team from their sprint burndown chart. If you know how to read it.

Organize CI/CD chaos and make the invisible visible with a Maturity Matrix

I love this photo, but probably not for the reason you would think. It’s from the 1986 NBA playoffs where Michael Jordan made history by scoring a record breaking 63 points for the…

Lying with charts is pretty easy

Charts are important because we use them for important things. They’re how we run businesses, manage…

So what’s a good unit test look like?

Here at Imdex, we write a lot of automated tests. A lot. Having a high quality suite of automated tests is part of our strategy for being able to move quickly and build products that work.

Our Friday Code Quality Tradition

Here at Imdex we have a weekly tradition thats had a huge impact on our software team.

Every Friday afternoon Luke Grootveld (our Cloud Dev Lead) walks across the office with his laptop. He goes into a meeting room, plugs into a TV, and sets up…

Creating a code quality culture with SonarQube

Code quality matters. Here at Imdex we have a lot of cool stuff we want to…

Kotlin in the real world

A few weeks ago we started a new Android app here at Imdex. We spent quite a while deciding whether to try the new…

Teaching kids to code

Everyone knows that teaching kids to code is important, but where do you start? There are so many different apps to…