In this post I’ll take a look what we can learn from the concept of MRV in strength sports when we apply it to software development. The theory from MRV can be found in the book “The Scientific Principles of Strength Training” and this is the source I’ll use. MRV in strength training explained For […]
Series: Recovery in software development is lacking – Intro
If you do any type of sport you probably know a bit about the concept of recovery. To give an extremely simple explanation of recovery in sport in case you don’t know what it is: it’s what you do in between training sessions to feel ready to train again. Examples of what you can do […]
Bashing Code and the Similarities to Bullying
Some developers on my team like to bash code that was written by one person in particular who has left the project 1 year ago. It still seems something they enjoy doing, preferably in groups. I’ve called them out on it, especially when a new person came into the project who had never even seen […]
Testing doesn’t innovate?

I was reading an interesting article that stated: Testing as a skilled profession doesn’t get the respect that it deserves Testing hasn’t kept pace with other parts of IT in terms of innovation. I don’t have a silver bullet answer to what we can do to improve these two points, but I do have some […]