How We do Estimation Meetings
Recently, my team changed the schedule for estimation meetings. I use this opportunity to explain how we manage estimating the user stories in our backlog. ...
Lessons Learned in December 2016
This is what I learned in December 2016: At the end of the year, I had to use some of my vacation days. That bought me time to do some of those projects ...
Writing Awesome Java Code Workshop
A couple of weeks ago, I gave another workshop for my colleagues in Braunschweig, Germany. The first thoughts for this workshop came to me months ago. I noti...
Lessons Learned in October and November 2016
This is what I learned in October and November 2016: As you may have noticed, this is a lessons learned from two months instead of one. Due to a pretty s...
My New Vertically Adjustable Desk
Couple of months ago, I started looking for a new desk for my home office. Changes in my project caused me to work from home a lot. Also, a colleague told me...
Java Forum Nord 2016 - tdlcr - Test Driven Legacy Code Refactoring by Falk Sippach
This article is part of a series about Java Forum Nord 2016, a conference that took place in Hannover, Germany. Links to articles about other talks I visited...
What is the Golden Master Technique
In preparation of my new workshop, I read about the Golden Master technique in detail. Because this is an important method to deal with legacy code and is ea...
Lessons learned in September 2016
This is what I learned in September 2016: Wrote an article about the first Get Together of me and my remote team. Wrote first of a handful of articles ...
How to Solve org.hsqldb.hsqlexception - Statement is closed
A while ago, we fixed a really annoying defect in our code. Because we debugged for days without finding the reason for the defect, I want to share how we ap...